from the Book of Gleanings, the second book of the Egyptian Texts of the Bronzebook (the first six books of The Kolbrin Bible), originally penned in Hieratic as The Great Book by Egyptian academicians, following Exodus of the Jews (ca 1500 BCE):
GLN: 15:50 ”…To be free from existence in the darkness of ignorance, to know the glory of life in the light of spiritual consciousness, a man must first awaken his spirit; in this way alone can he become aware of his true nature.”
GLN: 15:53 ”…All the suffering and disillusionment, the futility, the forlorn hopes and wasted efforts, the oppressions and injustices are not without a purpose. That purpose is beyond anything man can understand and infinitely greater than his conception can grasp. The truly awakened man, alone among men, can have any insight into life’s end and goal.”
GLN:15:54 ”…The taste of a fruit or the fragrance of a flower cannot be known by reading about them. The fruit must be eaten, and the flower smelt. Only in union with Me, spirit communicating with Spirit, can proof of My reality be found…”
”…The really illuminated man will already know something of the Truth and will therefore seek it more diligently along a higher path….”
”…Who states things in the most assertive manner and talks with the loudest voice? Is it not the most ignorant? I will not let the sincere seeker go unguided. I am the Light on the Path.”
GLN:15:55 “Well do I know the hearts of men; they ever seek to deceive themselves. They clearly see the errors and follies of others, but are blind to their own. There are those whose idea of righteousness is mumbled words and repetitious prayers. Their souls are warped with selfish desires, and their Heaven is the fulfillment of these. Their prayers are pleas for pleasure or power, for freedom from the things which develop the spirit. The lovers of pleasure and power delight in following the path of their own inclinations, they build a creed of their own desires. They have neither courage nor the will to follow a sterner true path. Avoid the companionship of such as these, setting your heart upon the task in hand rather than the reward. I am the Knower; I am the Rewarder.”
GLN:15:56 ”…The unenlightened men dwelling in comfortable darkness, unperturbed by the challenge of reality as revealed by the light of Truth, lack any understanding of true values. That which appears to them to be no more than a cup of sorrow is in fact a chalice filled with the wine of immortality.”
GLN:15:57 “The spirit of man has the potential for doing all things; it can even rise above earthly limitations. The awakened soul can do whatever it wills…”