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1. Religions are the raiments of
wisdom.
2. God is a metaphor for being.
3. All wisdom can be comprehended with reference
to the material world.
4. This is not to deny the spirituality of wisdom,
but rather the separation of the spiritual from the
material.
5. The limitations of reason are the limitations
of wisdom; the scope of reason is the scope of wisdom.
6. Experience is the landscape through which
reason travels, determining what reason sees.
7. Belief in divine intervention in human affairs,
or in life after death, or in reincarnation, is belief, not
wisdom.
8. Mystical experience is experience, not
wisdom.
9. Esoteric knowledge is knowledge, not wisdom.
Esoteric practice is practice, not wisdom.
10. Wisdom must be owned, which is to say that
it cannot be borrowed from scripture, faith, or tradition, but must come
from one's own reason working within the sphere of one's own
experience.
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