In the field of practical life, each person has his own criteria, his own more or less stale way of thinking, and never opens himself to anything new; this is irrefutable, indisputable, incontrovertible.
The mind of the intellectual humanoid is degenerated, deteriorated, in a clear state of devolution.
Indeed, the intellectual capacity for understanding of today’s humanity is similar to that of an old, inert and absurd mechanical structure, itself incapable of any authentic flexible phenomena.
The mind lacks ductility, it is bottled up in multiple rigid and outdated norms.
Each person has their own criteria and certain rigid rules within which they act and react incessantly.
The most serious thing about this whole issue is that the millions of criteria are equivalent to millions of putrid and absurd norms.
In any case, people never feel wrong, each mind is a world itself and there is no doubt that among so many mental recesses there are many distracting sophisms and unbearable stupidities.
But the narrow criteria of the multitudes do not even remotely suspect the intellectual bottleneck in which they find themselves.
These modern people with “cockroach brains” think the best of themselves, they boast of being liberals, of super-geniuses, they believe that they have very broad criteria.
The enlightened ignorants turn out to be the most difficult, because in reality, speaking this time in the Socratic sense we will say:
“Not only do they not know, but, in addition, they ignore that they do not know.”
Socrates
The intellectual scoundrels clinging to these antiquated norms of the past are violently prosecuted by virtue of their own bottleneck and emphatically refuse to accept something that in no way can fit within their steel standards.
The enlightened know-it-alls think that everything that for one reason or another goes outside the rigid path of their rusty procedures is one hundred percent absurd. In this way, these poor people with such difficult judgments deceive themselves miserably.
The pseudo-sages of this era boast of being brilliant, they look down on those who have the courage to depart from their time-worn norms, the worst of all is that they do not even remotely suspect the harsh reality of their own obtuseness.
The intellectual pettiness of stale minds is such that they even allow themselves the luxury of demanding demonstrations about what is real, about what is not of the mind.
People with a rickety and intolerant intelligence do not want to understand that the experience of reality only comes in the absence of the ego.
Unquestionably, in no way would it be possible to directly recognize the mysteries of life and death as long as the *inner mind has not been opened within ourselves. *(Study the lecture “The Three Minds” here)
It is worth repeating in this chapter that only the superlative consciousness of the Being can know the truth.
The inner mind can only function with the data provided by the Cosmic Consciousness of the BEING.
The subjective intellect, with its reasoning dialectic, can know nothing about that which escapes its jurisdiction.
We already know that the content concepts of reasoning dialectics are elaborated with the data provided by the senses of external perception.
Those who are bottled up within their intellectual procedures and fixed norms always resist these revolutionary ideas.
Only by radically and definitively dissolving the EGO is it possible to awaken consciousness and truly open the inner mind.
However, since these revolutionary declarations do not fit within formal logic, nor within dialectical logic, the subjective reaction of the involutionary minds opposes violent resistance.
These poor intellectual people want to put the ocean in a glass, they assume that the university can control all the wisdom of the universe and that all the laws of the Cosmos are obliged to submit to its old academic norms.
The ignorant paragons of wisdom do not even remotely suspect the degenerate state in which they find themselves.
Sometimes such people stand out for a moment when they come to the Esoteric world, but soon they go out like will-o’-the-wisps, they disappear from the panorama of spiritual concerns, they are swallowed up by the intellect and disappear from the scene forever.
The superficiality of the intellect can never penetrate the legitimate depths of BEING, but the subjective processes of rationalism can lead fools to all kinds of very brilliant but absurd conclusions.
The formulative power of logical concepts in no way implies the experience of reality.
The convincing game of reasoning dialectics self-fascinates the reasoner, making him always confuse the cat with the hare.
The brilliant procession of ideas blinds the scoundrel of the intellect and gives him a certain self-sufficiency so absurd as to reject everything that does not smell of library dust and university ink.
The “delirium tremens” of alcoholic drunkards have inconclusive unmistakable symptoms, but that of those drunken on theories is easily confused with genius.
When we get to this part of our chapter, we will say that it is certainly very difficult to know where the intellectualism of scoundrels ends and where madness begins.
As long as we continue bottled up within the rotten and stale norms of the intellect, the experience of that which is not of the mind, that which is not of time, that which is real will be more than impossible.
Samael Aun Weor
*Note: The term “Involution” is used in relation to Degeneration, which is A retrograde or degenerative change, such as in biology or zoology
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