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B Pursuit of Knowledge
To pursue knowledge is a given; wise are those who want to know and learn.
A form of power, knowledge can be incorporated to create wisdom.
Knowledge can be used to create enlightenment, ignorance, or everything in between.
The question is, where is the knowledge directed?
From where does it come?
The more one knows, the better. But a curse is inside knowledge that moves alone and boasts to itself: “I am the Queen of all,” promoting itself as the Queen of Queens. She forgets the sisters who uphold her to her throne.
For knowledge is only an increase, and without her sisters of Truth, Wisdom, and Understanding to protect her, she will fall into the violent hands of Ignorance, Foolishness, and Pretense.
Fallen she will be from the throne without her sisters; risen she will be on the highest throne, in love and balance with her sisters.
B Prayer:
"Lord Apollo,
Apollonian Light,
Transferred be to me, through Thoth,
Bring me True Knowledge,
Let it be blessed, let it be away from untruth!"
Ancient Greek Code Prayer Ἡ Ζήτησις τῆς Γνώσεως
Ὦ δέσποτα Ἄπολλον,
φῶς Ἀπολλώνιον,
διὰ Θωθ εἰς ἐμὲ μεταδοθέν,
ἀληθῆ γνῶσίν μοι κόμισον·
εὐλογημένη ἔστω καὶ ψεύδους ἀπέχουσα.
Transliteration
Ō despota Apollon,
phōs Apollōnion,
dia Thōth eis eme metadothen,
alēthē gnōsin moi komison;
eulogēmenē estō kai pseudous apekhousa.
Meaning
The prayer asks Apollo, through Thoth, for true knowledge free of falsehood.
The Ethic in Ancient Greek
Τὴν γνῶσιν ζητεῖν προσήκει· σοφοὶ οἱ μαθεῖν καὶ γνῶναι ἐπιθυμοῦντες.
Εἶδος δυνάμεως οὖσα, ἡ γνῶσις εἰς σοφίαν συναρμοσθῆναι δύναται.
Δύναται δὲ φωτισμὸν ἢ ἀγνοίαν ἢ τὰ μεταξὺ αὐτῶν γεννᾶν.
Ζητητέον οὖν ποῖ ἡ γνῶσις ἄγεται.
Καὶ πόθεν αὐτὴ προέρχεται;
Ὅσῳ πλείω γιγνώσκει τις, τοσούτῳ κρεῖττον· ἀρὰ δ᾽ ἐν τῇ μόνῃ βαδιζούσῃ καὶ αὐτοκαυχουμένῃ γνώσει ἐστίν, ὅταν βασίλισσαν πασῶν ἑαυτὴν καλεῖ, τὰς δ᾽ ἀδελφὰς αὐτῆς λανθάνει.
Αὔξησις μόνον ἡ γνῶσίς ἐστιν· ἄνευ Ἀληθείας, Σοφίας καὶ Συνέσεως, τῶν φυλασσουσῶν ἀδελφῶν, εἰς χεῖρας Ἀγνοίας, Ἀφροσύνης καὶ Προσποιήσεως πεσεῖται.
Χωρὶς αὐτῶν ἀπὸ θρόνου καταπίπτει· μετ᾽ αὐτῶν δὲ ἐν ἀγάπῃ καὶ ἰσορροπίᾳ εἰς τὸν ὑψηλότατον θρόνον ἀνίσταται.
Hē Zētēsis tēs Gnōseōs · Transliteration
Tēn gnōsin zētein prosēkei; sophoi hoi mathein kai gnōnai epithymountes.
Eidos dynameōs ousa, hē gnōsis eis sophian synarmosthēnai dynatai.
Dynatai de phōtismon ē agnoian ē ta metaxy autōn gennan.
Zētēteon oun poi hē gnōsis agetai.
Kai pothen autē proerkhetai;
Hosōi pleiō gignōskei tis, tosoutōi kreitton; ara d᾽ en tēi monēi badizousēi kai autokaukhoumenēi gnōsei estin, hotan basilissan pasōn heautēn kalei, tas d᾽ adelphas autēs lanthanei.
Auxēsis monon hē gnōsis estin; aneu Alētheias, Sophias kai Syneseōs, tōn phylassousōn adelphōn, eis kheiras Agnoias, Aphrosynēs kai Prospoiēseōs peseitai.
Khōris autōn apo thronou katapiptei; met᾽ autōn de en agapēi kai isorropiai eis ton hypsēlotaton thronon anistatai.
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