Humanity grows

more and more intelligent,

yet there is clearly more trouble

and less happiness daily.

How can this be so?

It is because intelligence is

not the same thing

as wisdom.

When a society

misuses partial intelligence

and ignores holistic wisdom,

its people forget the benefits

of a plain and natural life.

Seduced by

their desires, emotions,

and egos, they become slaves to

bodily demands, to luxuries, to power

and unbalanced religion and

psychological excuses.

Then the reign of

calamity and

confusion

begins.

Nonetheless,

superior people can

awaken during times of

turmoil to lead others

out of the mire.

But how can

the one liberate the many?

By first liberating his own being.

He does this not by elevating

himself, but by lowering himself.

He lowers himself to that which is

simple, modest, true; integrating it

into himself, he becomes a master

of simplicity, modesty, truth.

Completely

emancipated from his

former false life, he discovers

his original pure nature, which is the

pure nature of the

universe.

Freely

and spontaneously

releasing his divine energy,

he constantly transcends complicated

situations and draws everything

around him back into an

integral oneness.