Nov '23 • General discussion
Reading
Our history books are filled with one type of man. Those who educated themselves to such an extent they made a difference in the annals of history.
There are thousands of mummies in Egypt of average people.
Very few know their names.
Yet we all know the names of the warriors and scholars that redrew the lines of the maps of the world in which they lived.
They had made themselves worthy of such considerations because they could read.
The built their minds and bodies as gifts to the gods from which tye believed life originated.
There is a reason the church performed all of it’s rituals in Latin.
The average man or woman could not read Latin.
They had no idea if what the priest was telling them was true or not.
History books are filled with the corruption of such powerful men.
Legend has it that it was the Egyptian god Thoth who created writing or, as the Egyptians called it, medu netjer “the words of the gods” (this is what we refer to as hieroglyphics, after the Greek ἱερός “holy” and γλύφω “to carve”).
The wealthiest people today are all avid readers.
They say that one good idea is worth a million dollars.
Apparently so.
But we should understand the context of such a powerful tool.
When Thoth created writing and offered as a gift the response was not positive.
For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will, therefore, seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with since they are not wise, but only appear wise.
There is a reason that the Masonic Blue Lodge still transfers it’s knowledge from mentor ot pupil via memorization.
In the same way we develop our bodies to be functionally fit and learn to harness the power of our emotions, we must also be vigilant about our reading.
It does indeed take only one good idea to make a million dollars and your world will seem successful.
But it is the remembrance of the what our grandfathers taught us, what our mothers and fathers told us, about how the world works that will alow us to keep such wealth.
Therein lay the roots, the very foundation of wisdom.
A well lived life told to us in story fires the imagination.
Of course, they probably read it in a book.
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