{"id":195,"date":"2015-10-28T00:25:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T23:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fbucanada.com\/?page_id=195"},"modified":"2024-05-14T19:31:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T23:31:52","slug":"connais-toi-toi-meme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fbucanada.com\/en\/autres-themes\/connais-toi-toi-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Thyself"},"content":{"rendered":"

Know Thyself<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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\u2018\u00abKnow thyself\u00bb was the maxim inscribed on the pediment of the temple at Delphi. What is this \u2018self\u2019 that we have to know? Is it a question of knowing our own vices and virtues, our strengths and weaknesses? No: to know oneself is to know the different bodies (the physical, etheric, mental, causal, buddhic and atmic bodies) of which we are formed and what each of these bodies needs. If the initiates of old insisted so much on the necessity of self-knowledge, it was because this knowledge opens up tremendous possibilities for growth, progress and success. As long as man is ignorant of the needs of his higher self, he will continue to surfeit his physical body while his soul and spirit suffocate and die of hunger and thirst.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018\u00abKnow thyself\u00bb! <\/em>All science and all wisdom lies in knowing oneself, in finding oneself, in the fusion of one's lower self with one's higher Self. The symbol of the initiate who has succeeded in finding himself is the serpent with its tail in its mouth. A serpent forms a straight or wavy line, and a line is limited. But the serpent with its tail in its mouth forms a cirde, and a cirde represents the infinite, the limitless, the eternal. He who succeeds in becoming a circle enters a world without limitations where the \u00ababove\u00bb and the \u00abbelow\u00bbare no longer separated, because all the powers and all the riches and virtues of the true, higher Self have been infused into the lower self. The higher and the lower become one, and man becomes a divinity.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018To know oneself is to possess the science of the different bodies that constitute the human being (physical, etheric, astral, mental, causal, bouddhic and atmic) and the conditions necessary if they are to flourish. If the initiates of antiquity so insisted on the necessity of knowing oneself, it is because knowledge of oneself opens the greatest possibilities for advancement, for progress, for success.\u2019<\/p>\n