Once we have undertaken the inner journey, in order to protect ourself from possible errors, it is a good rule not to believe anything just because we have read it or heard; not to believe regardless of the traditions that come to us old and altered by the babel of human interpretation; not to believe what many speak of as enlightening, sacred and true; nor to believe just because we are before the testimony of an authority or a wise know-it-all; not to take something for granted because probabilities speak for it, or because out of old habit we believe it to be true; not to believe in the sole authority of a Master or the preacher of the moment.
The wise man accepts as infallible Truth, and lives according to it, only that which his personal research translates into living experience, because it corresponds to his own inner emancipation, to his good and to the good of his fellow men, and to his intimate well-being.
The faith of religions is for the profane, and blind faith in heterogeneous spiritual technicality is for the common people. Faith, on the other hand, as the result of one’s own investigations, tested by one’s own actions performed as personal experience, is Hieratic Science, mature acquired Consxiousness.
Wisdom opens its doors only to conscious experience, which is direct knowledge.
