The Direction of Ray II
"The Scholar knows the truth. All is revealed to him. Surrounded by his books, and
sheltered in the world of thought, he burrows like a mole, and finds his way into the
darkness; he arrives at knowledge of the world of natural things. His eye is closed. His
eyes are opened wide. He dwells within his world in deep content.
Detail on detail enter into the content of his world of thought. He stores the nuggets
of the knowledge of the world, as a squirrel stores its nuts. The storehouse now is
adequately full... Sudden a spade descends, for the thinker tends the garden of his
thought, and thus destroys the passages of mind. Ruin arrives, destroying fast the
storehouse of the mind, the safe security, the darkness and the warmth of a satisfied
enquiry. All is removed. The light of summer enters in and the darkened crannies of the
mind see light... Naught is left but light, and that cannot be used. The eyes are blinded
and the one eye seeth not as yet...
Slowly the eye of wisdom must be opened. Slowly the love of that which is the true, the
beautiful and good must enter the dark passages of worldly thought. Slowly the torch of
light, the fire of right must burn the garnered treasures of the past, yet show their
basic usefulness...
The seven ways of light must wean away the attention of the Scholar from all that has
been found and stored and used. This he repulses and finds his way into that Hall of
Wisdom which is built upon a hill, and not deep under ground. Only the opened eye can find
this way."
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