Page 9 - Gnosis volume 2

2

for the university education, it is in both cases, specialised.

*
* *

It is generally admitted that one cannot try to enter the secondary school without
having passed successfully through elementary school, nor try to go to university,

without having passed the secondary stage. These different degrees are responsible for

an automatic natural selection of persons apt to become active elements in the cultured

elite of human society. The same goes for the esoteric domain, at least, theoretically

speaking. In practice, one is often liable to come up against a curious phenomenon. For
example, one would never dream of discussing the properties of Newton's binomial

without having some notion of algebra, lacking which, any theories on the subject can

only be fallacious. But in the esoteric domain, one is inclined, too often, to consider
oneself apt to judge without having even the rudiments of this sort of knowledge.

What is more, we demand of esoteric teaching, a certain simplicity based on the

generally admitted principle that Truth in itself, should be simple. So we conclude that

access to the Truth should be simple also, and the method which leads us to it, easily

assimilable. This formula is perfectly right on one condition, that we be simple
ourselves, that is, just, in the sense of the New Testament. Unfortunately, we are not so,

because of the anarchy that reigns amidst our 987 little I’s. And there is a long road to

cover before we can shed our perverted and unruly condition, and attain that state of
primordial-simplicity.