Literature Clue [24th May] - Solved

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 23 May 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.

jmd	23 May 2004
From Hugh of St Victor - 12th century (I have broken the text into shorter paragraphs - in the original all this is but PART of a single paragraph): [font=papyrus] 'If you cannot read everything, read that which is more useful. Even if you can read everything, the same amount of labour should not be expanded on all; but some things are to be read so that they may not be unknown, and some so that they may not be unheard of, since sometimes we believe that of which we have not heard to be of greater importance, and a thing is more easily judged when its results are known. 'You can see now how necessary for you this humility is, that you may hold no knowledge cheap, and may learn freely from all. 'Likewise it behooves you not to despise others when you begin to know something. This vice of arrogance takes possession of some so that they contemplate their own knowledge too lovingly, and since they seem to themselves to be something, they think that others whom they do not know can neither be nor become such as they. ' [...] The good student should be humble and gentle, a stranger to senseless cares and the enticements of pleasure; he should be diligent and zealous, so that he may learn freely from all. 'He is never presumptuous about his own knowledge; he shuns the authors of perverse teaching like poison; he learns to consider a matter for a long time before he makes a judgement; he knows or seeks not how to seem learned, but to be truely learned; he loves the words of the wise when they have been understood, and he strives to keep them always before his eyes, as a mirror in front of his face. 'And if perchance his understanding does not have access to the more obscure things, he does not immediately burst out into vituperation, believing that nothing is good unless he himself can understand it. 'This is the humility of the students' discipline.' [/font]

Dakota	23 May 2004
Hierophant for learning and study??

hedgecub	23 May 2004
How about the 8 of Pentacles for humble, disciplined study?

mercenary30	23 May 2004
Page of Swords is the student.

gloria	23 May 2004
Justice?

tmgrl2	23 May 2004
jmd, what a lovely passage. I printed it to save it... could it be L'Imperatrice?

jmd	23 May 2004
It is a wonderful passage... I find so many wonderful texts from the middle ages are so little known, and so appropriate and evocative! ...but DAKOTA suggested it in the very first post, though I would have called it the Pope ;) Over to you Dakota! :):):)

gloria	24 May 2004
Congrats. Dakota....looking forward to your clue.

Phoenix Rising	24 May 2004
I've just seen this post, but yes I would of guessed heirophant too! Good one Dakota!

Dakota	24 May 2004
YIKES, hmmmmmmmmm, what to do.... (she scratches her head, befuddledly...........) Okay, I am off to mull; my maiden effort got guessed on the first try so muscles are going to be flexed........... I will have my clue up by the end of the day! :D

Dakota	24 May 2004
jmd - how do I edit the title of my thread where it appears on the forum? I wanted to mark the "3 May 24" thread "solved" but the edit is only showing up inside the message, not on the forum.............. TIA

jmd	24 May 2004
Kiama makes the changes to thread titles, as only moderators and administrators and this privilege.

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