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What the Soul Sees, It Knows 1

9 — What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows;
the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

This amounts to saying that all knowledge which is not the result of the soul’s vision or
experience is without true value.

But the question immediately arises — it was, in fact, put to me — “How do we know what
the soul sees?”

Obviously there is only one solution: to become conscious of one’s soul. And this completes the
aphorism: unless one is conscious of one’s soul one does not have true knowledge. Therefore
the first effort must be to find the soul within, to unite with it and allow it to govern one’s life.

Some people ask, “How do we know whether this is the soul?” I have already answered
this question several times. Those who ask this question, by the very fact of asking it, prove
that they are not conscious of their souls, because as soon as you are conscious of your soul
and identified with it, you have a positive knowledge of it and you no longer ask how you are to
know. And that experience can neither be counterfeited nor imagined; you cannot pretend to be in
contact with your soul — it is something which cannot be contrived or counterfeited. When the soul
governs your life, you know it with absolute certainty and no longer ask any questions.

But the usefulness of the aphorism we have just read is to make you understand that everything
you think you know, everything you have learnt, anything that has come to you in your life
through personal observation, deduction, comparison — all that is a very relative knowledge
on which you cannot found a durable and truly effective way of life.

How many times have we repeated this: all that comes from the mind is wholly relative. The

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