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KNOWLEDGE IS GOLDEN

BUT


"If we take a certain amount of gold and decide to gild a number of objects with it, we must know, or calculate, exactly what number of objects can be gilded with this quantity of gold. If we try to gild a greater number, they will be covered with gold unevenly, in patches, and will look much worse than if they had no gold at all, in fact we shall lose our gold. 

The distribution of knowledge is based upon exactly the same principle. If knowledge is given to all, nobody will get any. If it is preserved among a few, each will receive not only enough to keep, but to increase what he receives. 

From this point of view it is far more advantageous that knowledge should be preserved among a small number of people and not dispersed among the masses.

Thus if a certain definite quantity of knowledge is distributed among millions of people, each individual will receive very little, and this small amount of knowledge will change nothing either in his life or in his understanding of things.

But if, on the contrary, large quantities of knowledge are concentrated in a small number of people, then this knowledge will give very great results."

‘In Search of the Miraculous’          P.D. Ouspensky

BE A GOLD DIGGER!


Tom Schilling, September 9th, 2020