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87 Ancient African Proverbs<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Egyptians [The Original name: Kemetians]. The Ancient African Proverbs<\/strong> were an essential part of Ancient Kemetian science. One of the main concepts they had was “know yourself.” The original meaning of this saying held that within man is the divine essence of the Creator<\/a> and the heavens as the central expression of their teachings: “The kingdom of heaven is within you, and whosoever shall know himself shall find it.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Proverbs were held as a teaching method for a man to understand the Universe; thus, they were inscribed in temples and tombs of Kemet; these inscriptions were the first Holy Books known to man.<\/span><\/p>\n

Universal Knowledge<\/strong><\/h3>\n

01. The best and shortest road towards knowledge of truth is Nature<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

02. For every joy, there is a price to be paid.<\/span><\/p>\n

03. If his heart rules him, his conscience will soon take the place of the rod.<\/span><\/p>\n

04. What you are doing does not matter so much as what you are learning from doing it. It is better not to know and to know that one does not know\u00a0than presumptuously to attribute some random meaning to symbols.<\/span><\/p>\n

05. If you search for the laws of harmony, you will find knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n

06. If you are searching for a Neter, observe Nature!<\/span><\/p>\n

07. Exuberance is a good stimulus towards action, but the inner light grows in silence and concentration.<\/span><\/p>\n

08. Not the greatest Master can go even one step for his disciple; in himself, he must experience each stage of developing consciousness. Therefore he will know nothing for which he is not ripe.<\/span><\/p>\n

09. The body is the house of God. That is why it is said, “Man know yourself.”<\/span><\/p>\n

10.\u00a0True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awaking of consciousness which goes through successive stages.<\/span><\/p>\n

11.\u00a0The man who knows how to lead one of his brothers towards what he has known may one day be saved by that very brother.<\/span><\/p>\n

12.\u00a0People bring about their own undoing through their tongues.<\/span><\/p>\n

13.\u00a0If one tries to navigate unknown waters, one runs the risk of shipwreck.<\/span><\/p>\n

14.\u00a0Leave him in error who loves his error.<\/span><\/p>\n

15.\u00a0Every man is rich in excuses to safeguard his prejudices, his instincts, and his opinions.<\/span><\/p>\n

16.\u00a0To know means to record in one’s memory, but to understand means to blend with the thing and to assimilate it oneself.<\/span><\/p>\n

17.\u00a0There are two kinds of error: blind credulity and piecemeal criticism. Never believe a word without putting its truth to the test; discernment does not grow in laziness, and this faculty of discernment is indispensable to the Seeker. Sound skepticism is the necessary condition for good discernment, but piecemeal criticism is an error.<\/span><\/p>\n

18.\u00a0Love is one thing; knowledge is another.<\/span><\/p>\n

19.\u00a0True sages are those who give what they have, without meanness and without secret!<\/span><\/p>\n

20.\u00a0An answer brings no illumination unless the question has matured to a point where it gives rise to this answer, which thus becomes its fruit. Therefore learn how to put a question.<\/span><\/p>\n

21.\u00a0What reveals itself to me ceases to be mysterious for me alone: if I unveil it to anyone else, he hears mere words which betray the living sense: Profanation, but never revelation.<\/span><\/p>\n

22.\u00a0The first concerning the ‘secrets’: all cognition comes from inside; we are therefore initiated only by ourselves, but the Master gives the keys.<\/span><\/p>\n

23.\u00a0The second concerning the ‘way’: the seeker has need of a Master to guide him and lift him up when he falls, to lead him back to the right way when he strays.<\/span><\/p>\n

24.\u00a0Understanding develops by degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n

25.\u00a0As to deserving, know that the gift of heaven is free; this gift of Knowledge is so great that no effort whatever could hope to ‘deserve’ it.<\/span><\/p>\n

26.\u00a0If the Master teaches what is error, the disciple’s submission is slavery; if he teaches truth, this submission is ennoblement.<\/span><\/p>\n

27.\u00a0There grows no wheat where there is no grain.<\/span><\/p>\n

28.\u00a0The only thing that is humiliating is helplessness.<\/span><\/p>\n

29.\u00a0An answer if profitable in proportion to the intensity of the quest.<\/span><\/p>\n

30.\u00a0Listen to your conviction, even if they seem absurd to your reason.<\/span><\/p>\n

31.\u00a0Know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world, for this would be to project your illusion. To teach one must know the nature of those whom one is teaching.<\/span><\/p>\n

32.\u00a0In every vital activity, it is the path that matters.<\/span><\/p>\n

33.\u00a0The way of knowledge is narrow.<\/span><\/p>\n

34.\u00a0Each truth you learn will be, for you, as new as if it had never been written.<\/span><\/p>\n

35.\u00a0The only active force that arises out of possession is fear of losing the object of possession.<\/span><\/p>\n

36.\u00a0If you defy an enemy by doubting his courage you double it.<\/span><\/p>\n

37.\u00a0The nut doesn’t reveal the tree it contains.<\/span><\/p>\n

38.\u00a0For knowledge… you should know that peace is an indispensable condition of getting it.<\/span><\/p>\n

39.\u00a0The first thing necessary in teaching is a master; the second is a pupil capable of carrying on the tradition.<\/span><\/p>\n

40.\u00a0Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n

41.\u00a0Envious greed must govern to possess and ambition must possess to govern.<\/span><\/p>\n

42.\u00a0When the governing class isn’t chosen for quality it is chosen for material wealth: this always means decadence, the lowest stage a society can reach.<\/span><\/p>\n

43.\u00a0One foot isn’t enough to walk with.<\/span><\/p>\n

44.\u00a0Our senses serve to affirm, not to know.<\/span><\/p>\n

45.\u00a0We mustn’t confuse mastery with mimicry, knowledge with superstitious ignorance.<\/span><\/p>\n

46.\u00a0Physical consciousness is indispensable for the achievement of knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n

47.\u00a0A man<\/a> can’t be judge of his neighbor’ intelligence. His own vital experience is never his neighbor’s.<\/span><\/p>\n

48.\u00a0No discussion can throw light if it wanders from the real point.<\/span><\/p>\n

49.\u00a0Your body is the temple of knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n

50.\u00a0Experience will show you, a Master can only point the way.<\/span><\/p>\n

51.\u00a0A house has the character of the man who lives in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

52.\u00a0All organs work together in the functioning of the whole.<\/span><\/p>\n

53.\u00a0A man’s heart is his own Neter.<\/span><\/p>\n

54.\u00a0A pupil may show you by his own efforts how much he deserves to learn from you.<\/span><\/p>\n

55.\u00a0Routine and prejudice distort vision. Each man thinks his own horizon is the limit of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

56.\u00a0You will free yourself when you learn to be neutral and follow the instructions of your heart without letting things perturb you. This is the way of Maat.<\/span><\/p>\n

57.\u00a0Judge by cause, not by effect.<\/span><\/p>\n

58.\u00a0Growth in consciousness doesn’t depend on the will of the intellect or its possibilities but on the intensity of the inner urge.<\/span><\/p>\n

59.\u00a0Every man must act in the rhythm of his time… such is wisdom.<\/span><\/p>\n

60.\u00a0Men need images. Lacking them they invent idols. Better then to found the images on realities that lead the true seeker to the source.<\/span><\/p>\n

61.\u00a0Maat, who links universal to terrestrial, the divine with the human is incomprehensible to the cerebral intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

62.\u00a0Have the wisdom to abandon the values of a time that has passed and pick out the constituents of the future. An environment must be suited to the age and men to their environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

63.\u00a0Everyone finds himself in the world where he belongs. The essential thing is to have a fixed point from which to check its reality now and then.<\/span><\/p>\n

64.\u00a0Always watch and follow nature.<\/span><\/p>\n

65.\u00a0A phenomenon always arises from the interaction of complementary. If you want something look for the compliment that will elicit it. Seth causes Horus, Horus redeems Seth.<\/span><\/p>\n

66.\u00a0All seed answer light, but the color is different.<\/span><\/p>\n

67.\u00a0The plant reveals what is in the seed.<\/span><\/p>\n

68.\u00a0Popular beliefs on essential matters must be examined in order to discover the original thought.<\/span><\/p>\n

69.\u00a0It is the passive resistance from the helm that steers the boat.<\/span><\/p>\n

70. The key to all problems is the problem of consciousness.<\/span><\/p>\n

71.\u00a0Man must learn to increase his sense of responsibility and of the fact that everything he does will have its consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n

72.\u00a0If you would build something solid, don’t work with wind: always look for a fixed point, something you know that is stable… yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

73.\u00a0If you would know yourself, take yourself as starting point and go back to its source; your beginning will disclose your end.<\/span><\/p>\n

74.\u00a0Images are nearer reality than cold definitions.<\/span><\/p>\n

75.\u00a0Seek peacefully, you will find.<\/span><\/p>\n

76.\u00a0Organization is impossible unless those who know the laws of harmony lay the foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n

77.\u00a0It is no use whatever preaching Wisdom to men: you must inject it into their blood.<\/span><\/p>\n

78.\u00a0Knowledge is consciousness of reality. Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow.<\/span><\/p>\n

79.\u00a0Social good is what brings peace to family and society.<\/span><\/p>\n

80.\u00a0Knowledge is not necessarily wisdom.<\/span><\/p>\n

81.\u00a0By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains conviction. When you know, dare.<\/span><\/p>\n

82.\u00a0Altruism is the mark of a superior being.<\/span><\/p>\n

83.\u00a0All is within yourself. Know your most inward self and look for what corresponds with it in nature.<\/span><\/p>\n

84.\u00a0The seed cannot sprout upwards without simultaneously sending roots into the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

85.\u00a0The seed includes all the possibilities of the tree… The seed will develop these possibilities, however, only if it receives corresponding energies from the sky.<\/span><\/p>\n

86.\u00a0Grain must return to the earth, die, and decompose for new growth to begin.<\/span><\/p>\n

87.\u00a0Man<\/a>, know yourself… and you shalt know the gods.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reference: Egyptian\u00a0Proverbs<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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