Click in the field, then press CTRL+C to copy the HTML code
<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473314" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Teacher Of Wisdom</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">From his childhood he had been as one filled with the perfect<br>knowledge of God, and even while he was yet but a lad many of the<br>saints, as well as certain holy women who dwelt in the free city of<br>his birth, had been stirred to much wonder by the grave wisdom of<br>his answers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when his parents had given him the robe and the ring of manhood<br>he kissed them, and left them and went out into the world, that he<br>might speak to the world about God. For there were at that time<br>many in the world who either knew not God at all, or had but an<br>incomplete knowledge of Him, or worshipped the false gods who dwell<br>in groves and have no care of their worshippers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he set his face to the sun and journeyed, walking without<br>sandals, as he had seen the saints walk, and carrying at his girdle<br>a leathern wallet and a little water-bottle of burnt clay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as he walked along the highway he was full of the joy that<br>comes from the perfect knowledge of God, and he sang praises unto<br>God without ceasing; and after a time he reached a strange land in<br>which there were many cities.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he passed through eleven cities. And some of these cities were<br>in valleys, and others were by the banks of great rivers, and<br>others were set on hills. And in each city he found a disciple who<br>loved him and followed him, and a great multitude also of people<br>followed him from each city, and the knowledge of God spread in the<br>whole land, and many of the rulers were converted, and the priests<br>of the temples in which there were idols found that half of their<br>gain was gone, and when they beat upon their drums at noon none, or<br>but a few, came with peacocks and with offerings of flesh as had<br>been the custom of the land before his coming.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet the more the people followed him, and the greater the number of<br>his disciples, the greater became his sorrow. And he knew not why<br>his sorrow was so great. For he spake ever about God, and out of<br>the fulness of that perfect knowledge of God which God had Himself<br>given to him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And one evening he passed out of the eleventh city, which was a<br>city of Armenia, and his disciples and a great crowd of people<br>followed after him; and he went up on to a mountain and sat down on<br>a rock that was on the mountain, and his disciples stood round him,<br>and the multitude knelt in the valley.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he bowed his head on his hands and wept, and said to his Soul,<br>'Why is it that I am full of sorrow and fear, and that each of my<br>disciples is an enemy that walks in the noonday?' And his Soul<br>answered him and said, 'God filled thee with the perfect knowledge<br>of Himself, and thou hast given this knowledge away to others. The<br>pearl of great price thou hast divided, and the vesture without<br>seam thou hast parted asunder. He who giveth away wisdom robbeth<br>himself. He is as one who giveth his treasure to a robber. Is not<br>God wiser than thou art? Who art thou to give away the secret that<br>God hath told thee? I was rich once, and thou hast made me poor.<br>Once I saw God, and now thou hast hidden Him from me.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he wept again, for he knew that his Soul spake truth to him,<br>and that he had given to others the perfect knowledge of God, and<br>that he was as one clinging to the skirts of God, and that his<br>faith was leaving him by reason of the number of those who believed<br>in him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he said to himself, 'I will talk no more about God. He who<br>giveth away wisdom robbeth himself.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And after the space of some hours his disciples came near him and<br>bowed themselves to the ground and said, 'Master, talk to us about<br>God, for thou hast the perfect knowledge of God, and no man save<br>thee hath this knowledge.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he answered them and said, 'I will talk to you about all other<br>things that are in heaven and on earth, but about God I will not<br>talk to you. Neither now, nor at any time, will I talk to you<br>about God.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they were wroth with him and said to him, 'Thou hast led us<br>into the desert that we might hearken to thee. Wilt thou send us<br>away hungry, and the great multitude that thou hast made to follow<br>thee?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he answered them and said, 'I will not talk to you about God.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the multitude murmured against him and said to him, 'Thou hast<br>led us into the desert, and hast given us no food to eat. Talk to<br>us about God and it will suffice us.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But he answered them not a word. For he knew that if he spake to<br>them about God he would give away his treasure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And his disciples went away sadly, and the multitude of people<br>returned to their own homes. And many died on the way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when he was alone he rose up and set his face to the moon, and<br>journeyed for seven moons, speaking to no man nor making any<br>answer. And when the seventh moon had waned he reached that desert<br>which is the desert of the Great River. And having found a cavern<br>in which a Centaur had once dwelt, he took it for his place of<br>dwelling, and made himself a mat of reeds on which to lie, and<br>became a hermit. And every hour the Hermit praised God that He had<br>suffered him to keep some knowledge of Him and of His wonderful<br>greatness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, one evening, as the Hermit was seated before the cavern in<br>which he had made his place of dwelling, he beheld a young man of<br>evil and beautiful face who passed by in mean apparel and with<br>empty hands. Every evening with empty hands the young man passed<br>by, and every morning he returned with his hands full of purple and<br>pearls. For he was a Robber and robbed the caravans of the<br>merchants.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the Hermit looked at him and pitied him. But he spake not a<br>word. For he knew that he who speaks a word loses his faith.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And one morning, as the young man returned with his hands full of<br>purple and pearls, he stopped and frowned and stamped his foot upon<br>the sand, and said to the Hermit: 'Why do you look at me ever in<br>this manner as I pass by? What is it that I see in your eyes? For<br>no man has looked at me before in this manner. And the thing is a<br>thorn and a trouble to me.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the Hermit answered him and said, 'What you see in my eyes is<br>pity. Pity is what looks out at you from my eyes.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the young man laughed with scorn, and cried to the Hermit in a<br>bitter voice, and said to him, 'I have purple and pearls in my<br>hands, and you have but a mat of reeds on which to lie. What pity<br>should you have for me? And for what reason have you this pity?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I have pity for you,' said the Hermit, 'because you have no<br>knowledge of God.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Is this knowledge of God a precious thing?' asked the young man,<br>and he came close to the mouth of the cavern.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It is more precious than all the purple and the pearls of the<br>world,' answered the Hermit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And have you got it?' said the young Robber, and he came closer<br>still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Once, indeed,' answered the Hermit, 'I possessed the perfect<br>knowledge of God. But in my foolishness I parted with it, and<br>divided it amongst others. Yet even now is such knowledge as<br>remains to me more precious than purple or pearls.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the young Robber heard this he threw away the purple and<br>the pearls that he was bearing in his hands, and drawing a sharp<br>sword of curved steel he said to the Hermit, 'Give me, forthwith<br>this knowledge of God that you possess, or I will surely slay you.<br>Wherefore should I not slay him who has a treasure greater than my<br>treasure?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the Hermit spread out his arms and said, 'Were it not better<br>for me to go unto the uttermost courts of God and praise Him, than<br>to live in the world and have no knowledge of Him? Slay me if that<br>be your desire. But I will not give away my knowledge of God.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the young Robber knelt down and besought him, but the Hermit<br>would not talk to him about God, nor give him his Treasure, and the<br>young Robber rose up and said to the Hermit, 'Be it as you will.<br>As for myself, I will go to the City of the Seven Sins, that is but<br>three days' journey from this place, and for my purple they will<br>give me pleasure, and for my pearls they will sell me joy.' And he<br>took up the purple and the pearls and went swiftly away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the Hermit cried out and followed him and besought him. For<br>the space of three days he followed the young Robber on the road<br>and entreated him to return, nor to enter into the City of the<br>Seven Sins.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And ever and anon the young Robber looked back at the Hermit and<br>called to him, and said, 'Will you give me this knowledge of God<br>which is more precious than purple and pearls? If you will give me<br>that, I will not enter the city.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And ever did the Hermit answer, 'All things that I have I will give<br>thee, save that one thing only. For that thing it is not lawful<br>for me to give away.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in the twilight of the third day they came nigh to the great<br>scarlet gates of the City of the Seven Sins. And from the city<br>there came the sound of much laughter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the young Robber laughed in answer, and sought to knock at the<br>gate. And as he did so the Hermit ran forward and caught him by<br>the skirts of his raiment, and said to him: 'Stretch forth your<br>hands, and set your arms around my neck, and put your ear close to<br>my lips, and I will give you what remains to me of the knowledge of<br>God.' And the young Robber stopped.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the Hermit had given away his knowledge of God, he fell<br>upon the ground and wept, and a great darkness hid from him the<br>city and the young Robber, so that he saw them no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as he lay there weeping he was ware of One who was standing<br>beside him; and He who was standing beside him had feet of brass<br>and hair like fine wool. And He raised the Hermit up, and said to<br>him: 'Before this time thou hadst the perfect knowledge of God.<br>Now thou shalt have the perfect love of God. Wherefore art thou<br>weeping?' And he kissed him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oscar+Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a><div class=q>
<img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share">
<script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473314" data-title="The Teacher Of Wisdom de Oscar Wilde" data-description="From his childhood he had been as one filled with the perfect
knowledge of God, and even while he was yet but a lad many of the
saints, as well as certain holy women who dwelt in the free city of
his birth, had been stirred to much wonder by the g..."></div>
</div>
</div>