"Many are the Thyrsus-bearers but few are the Mystics."
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"The millions are awake enough for physical labor;
but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion,
only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive." Henry David Thoreau
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Scarce three in one million canst be candidates for the Work of Holy Alkimy.’ says Thomas Norton in his ‘Ordinall of Alkimy’ (1477).
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"In the bhagavad gita Krishna says,
out of every thousand people one is really serious,
and out of every thousand serious people only one knows me as I really am
that's one in a million, and I think that's a very generous estimate, personally, I think it's far fewer than that."
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Jesus said:
"I shall choose you,
one out of a thousand and two out of ten thousand,
and they shall stand as a single one."
"many Thyrsus-bearers (knowledge) but few Bacchi."
“many who carry the thyrsus but the Bacchants are few.”
Plato
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Kabir says, listen, my good brothers—
one in a million has solved this mystery‘
For many ben clepid, but fewe ben chosun. (Matthew 22:14)
“and wisdom itself is a kind of cleansing or purification. It is likely that those who established the mystic rites for us were not inferior persons but were speaking in riddles long ago when they said that whoever arrives in the underworld uninitiated and unsanctified will wallow in the mire, whereas he who arrives there purified and initiated will dwell with the gods.
There are indeed, as those concerned with the mysteries say,
many who carry the thyrsus but the Bacchants are few.”
Plato
"The initiated are few, though many bear the thyrsus."
