The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils.
I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search.
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he has espoused, at the end of that trial or affliction that individual is nearer to God, nearer in regard to the increase of faith, wisdom, knowledge and power, and hence is more confident in calling upon the Lord for those things he desires.
In the universe, there is darkness and light. We call this duality. When you seek knowledge and power, there are forces and people that will oppose you.
Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes.
Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God’s unlimited wisdom and omnipotence.
In order not to lose your resolve and purpose, you need to unite with others of like mind and work with an advanced Teacher who is in touch with, and can transfer, knowledge and power.
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil. . . or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain. . . It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a passionate interior, hidden by a cool layer of reserve. Aren't books like that? On the shelf, their calm covers belie the intense experience of reading one. Reading inflames the soul. Now, what sort of person would be the keeper of such books?
. . . we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. . . . In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.
While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it means that a person becomes more fixed.
I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.
It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.
As the kundalini rises, the knowledge and powers of those dimensions will begin to come to you.
The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.
