Daily Meditation: Thursday, December 3, 2009
The intellect is the faculty that enables human beings to …
The intellect is the faculty that enables human beings to know matter and, thereby, also to affect it. That is why they apply themselves to cultivating the intellect and why there are so many educated, capable and clever people in the world. That’s fine, but the further human beings travel along that path, the more ways they acquire of controlling others, of dominating and enslaving them. You only have to look at the way they behave. Why is this the case? Because the teaching children and students receive in schools and universities does not address their heart or their soul, much less their spirit; it addresses only their intellect, and they use this learning in the service of their lower nature, which then manifests as selfishness, ambition and jealousy. None of the knowledge young people receive enables them to work on mastering their lower nature; they are given weapons without being given the ideal of self-improvement, so of course they use them to satisfy their grossest appetites.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
