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Wisdom is the science of the spirit, just as knowledge is the science of matter. Knowledge is separative and objective, whilst wisdom is synthetic and subjective. Knowledge divides; wisdom unites. Knowledge differentiates whilst wisdom blends.

— Alice Bailey

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I have already given you more than you can understand, but not more than you can begin slowly to study and eventually to comprehend...

Discipleship in the New Age, Volume II (1955)

Arrest each unloving thought; stamp out each critical action, and teach yourself to love all beings - not in theory but in deed and in truth.

Discipleship in the New Age, Vol. I (1944)

The more a man grasps and knows, the greater is the horizon which opens up before him.

The Consciousness of the Atom (1922)

There is no finality in the presentation of truth; it develops and grows to meet man's growing demand for light.

When the spiritual intelligence, which stands alone and freed from objects, reflects itself in the mind stuff, then comes awareness of the self.

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Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

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