"<p>The only real learning is to awaken to life the dormant ancient knowledge in our being.<br />The primal wisdom inherent in the human being is essentially the same in everyone, its validity is complete. Ancestral knowledge is the only suitable foundation; that which is based on it is incorruptible, that which is based on thought is decayable.<br />Ancestral knowledge is infinitely simple, so simple that it cannot be put into words. It is agreed with all that is necessary, calm, solid; it is opposed to all that is seductive, exciting, teeming.<br />Ten armies, a hundred coffers, a thousand deeds are destroyed; what the possessors of the primal study create without any help is preserved.<br />He who has conquered for himself the ancestral knowledge inherent in his being has attained all that is humanly attainable; life and death can only superficially wound him, he is essentially inviolable and complete.</p>"