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Updated: May 14, 2025
Should any ask you how you happen to know such or such a doctrine as the dictate of Nature, clap your hand to your heart and say, "Here!" Yield to a man's tastes, and he will yield to your interest. When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble, and ask their opinion.
It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous. To see a difficult thing lightly handled gives us the impression of the impossible. Difficulties increase the nearer we come to our aim. Sowing is not so painful as reaping. If any one meets us who owes us a debt of gratitude, it immediately crosses our mind.
We are all on The Path and the road leads upward ever, with frequent resting places. Read the message of The Kybalion and follow the example of "the wise" avoiding the mistake of "the half-wise" who perish by reason of their folly. The Kybalion. The commonly used expression is a survival of the ancient Hermetic Maxim quoted above.
"Fools and modest people are alike innocuous. It is only your half-fools and your half-wise who are really and truly dangerous. "There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art. "Alike in the moment of our highest fortune and our deepest necessity, we require the artist.
Should any ask you how you happen to know such or such a doctrine as the dictate of Nature, clap your hand to your heart and say, "Here!" Yield to a man's tastes, and he will yield to your interest. When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble, and ask their opinion.
But do not yield to the temptation which, as The Kybalion states, overcomes the half-wise and which causes them to be hypnotized by the apparent unreality of things, the consequence being that they wander about like dream-people dwelling in a world of dreams, ignoring the practical work and life of man, the end being that "they are broken against the rocks and torn asunder by the elements, by reason of their folly."
The day comes when the hidden author of our story is found; when the brave speech returns straight to the hero who said it; when the admirable verse finds the poet to whom it belongs; and best of all, when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought, because it cast no light abroad, is suddenly matched in our mind by its twin, by its sequence, or next related analogy, which gives it instantly radiating power, and justifies the superstitious instinct with which we had hoarded it.
"The half-wise, recognizing the comparative unreality of the Universe, imagine that they may defy its Laws such are vain and presumptuous fools, and they are broken against the rocks and torn asunder by the elements by reason of their folly.
Man, like Micawber, may exclaim: "The Spirit of my Creator is inherent within me and yet I am not HE!" How different this from the shocking half-truth so vociferously announced by certain of the half-wise, who fill the air with their raucous cries of: "I am God!"
If they had only known it, the children in their best clothes standing up very stiff and straight did not look half as pretty as the baskets of kittens with eyes half-innocent, half-wise, or the funny little pups, so round and fat.
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