2 Stupidity

"Supposing that souls and selves ever manage to avoid an excess of antipathy, its complement-stupidity-claims their attention from the opposite corner."

"Stupidity is not an inability but a definite denial of wisdom. A stupid person just will not become wise if he or she can possibly avoid this. We should be careful how we accuse people of stupidity when they are perhaps slow-witted or unable to comprehend a great deal beyond their very limited mental means. Stupidity has to be intentional. Moreover, it is essentially a refusal to open up the higher faculties or awareness because this might not suit the convenience of consciousness operating on lower levels. A spiritually stupid person may be a well-informed one, having considerable intellectual capacity and mental scope. In the last analysis, stupidity is sheer determination to resist the awakening of genuine inner wisdom in the self which might direct that self closer to divinity.

"Stupidity is not the closing of a mind but of a soul against the awareness of its divine destiny. This may be reflected on a lower level as inhibition of intelligence, but such is the fundamental basis." Then Gray goes on to say that for evil-doers it might be in their best interest to keep people in a state of chaos, in other words keep us uninformed of our spiritual and divine destiny, that way the "ill-intentioned "ones can keep their false sense of identity and social status.

"Stupidity must never be mistaken for simplicity on any account. True wisdom is not mere formal learning or educational qualifications which dissipate with the death of a human brain at the end of its limited lifetime. It is the ability of being aware in the spiritual sense of the term, which means an appreciation of truth in its own self-right. To carry consciousness through all anything IS until its point of unbeing is reached. As human we can only be really wise in relatively minor degrees, but while we cover even those with a curtain of stupidity we may hardly hope for higher forms of inner freedom. So it is scarcely surprising that all agencies of evil intending us to remain retarded at this end of existence and serve their ideas of authority rely heavily on the stupidity factor for keeping us down where they really mean us to belong. It needs true spiritual simplicity to see through this scheme with one straight line."
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TREE OF LIFE..................................................TREE OF EVIL
Wisdom..........................................................Stupidity
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Where ignorance is folly.................1................Where ignorance is bliss
it is bliss being wise........................................'tis folly to be wise.

Accept wisdom. Why be.................2.............Why be wise when
stupid?......................................................Stupidity is acceptable.

The fear of God begins...................3.................Who fears the wisdom of
wisdom............................................................Any God?

Wisdom clarifies.........................4.................Obscure the clarity of
obscurity...........................................................Wisdom.

Why play the fool when...................5.................Why work at wisdom
it is pleasing to work.........................................When foolishness gives
with wisdom?.....................................................Pleasure.

Among the wise, it is...................6.................Among idiots the stupid
idiotic being stupid...........................................Seem wise.

Find out how you might...................7.................Don't encourage wisdom
encourage wisdom in..........................................in others--they might
others...............................................................find you out.

Time is never wasted.....................8..................Never waste time with
with wisdom.......................................................Wisdom.

What can we do without...................9......................We can do without
wisdom?..................................................................Wisdom.

Wisdom cannot afford................10............Better luxuriously stupid
luxuries.....................................................than penuriously wise.
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taken from the "TREE OF EVIL", William G.Gray, published by Samuel Weiser. 1974
Pages 49,110,111.