| BkIV:10.III.2 | As extreme as it may sound, my beloveds, you must understand that what you call the "wisdom of the world" is a mechanism of separation. It is an absurd, unnecessary attempt to want to know without the intervention of God. It is the most eloquent expression of a humanity that would no longer need God. Brother, sister, if there is one way in which you have striven most to demonstrate separation and most sought to differentiate yourself from everything, it is with the intellectual. Does not that reveal something? What do you seek when you want to know something? You seek specific knowledge. |