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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and there is a purpose as deep in our prosperity. Their
famine will eventually drive them into more material con-
ditions, but we, having a land of plenty with all the good
things of this world, where ingenious inventions make
life easier on every hand, will eventually say to ourselves,
when we have been satisfied with these material blessings,
"What is the good of it all ? Give us, rather, the spiritual
things/' and we will then enter a spiritual development
much higher than that of the East.
QUESTION
N"o. 174.
What is meant ~by the sentence "Man, know thyself?"
Answer: This sentence was found aoove the entrance to
a Greek mystery temple as an indication of the fact that it
is obligatory upon man to thoroughly understand the
mystery of his own nature, which is much deeper than is
apparent on the surface. This, on the principle of the
hermetic axiom, "as above, so below." When he under-
stands himself and knows himself, he will be able .by
analogy to know about God. For it is truly said that
"Man was made in the image of God."
But to know himself, it is not only necessary