Wisdom from books

Motif

Wisdom from books.

The wise and the foolish. · Acquisition and possession of wisdom (knowledge). · Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge). · view the constellation · filed as J166

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 3: The Sophic Hydrolith, or Water Stone of the Wise
Hermetic / Alchemical Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena , Chapter VII: The Myth of Man in the Mysteries
Literary Crystallization Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged) , Book 3, Story 2
Vedic (Indian / Sanskrit) The Hymns of the Rigveda , 6.16
Literary Crystallization The Prophetic Books of William Blake (Sampson's Oxford Blake) , Tiriel

Filed across the traditions

Jewish Neuman.

Within the index

Filed under Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge).

2 finer motifs beneath it

Wisdom from books bought at great price. (Sibylline). Nine books first offered at certain price. Finally after this is refused and the owner throws six of them into the fire, the king pays the same price for three of them. Finds them filled with wisdom Wisdom from books of the antediluvians

Filed beside it

Wisdom from old person Wisdom (knowledge) from sage (teacher) Wisdom from holy man Wise words of dying father. Counsel proved wise by experience Wisdom (knowledge) from women Wisdom from fools Wisdom (knowledge) from dream Wisdom from angel Trial rehearsed before stick in the ground as judge Wisdom acquired by hanging in a tree Wisdom purchased Wisdom from God Tree of knowledge Wisdom from continual reminder of foolishness in the past. Unjust judge skinned and his skin stretched over a footstool kept in the presence of judges, so as to remind them to be just Inscription on walls for condensed education Proverbial wisdom: counsels. (Cf. B82.6.)

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