This is it.
The guru is manifested by your subconscious. By your higher self. If he is incomplete and fallible, that is because your mind isn’t ready for the real knowledge yet.
Much like there is absolutely nothing “magickal” about magick. It’s just reprogramming of your subconscious via habits and understanding that the subconscious works on symbolism and imagery.
You nailed it.
For me a scientist and a spiritual guru are two sides of the same coin. Both have the goal to develop intelligence but 99,9% of the time both fail to do so.
The scientists is smart, knows almost everything but is not intelligent.
The spiritual guru appears to be intelligent but knows almost nothing.
The scientists looks at the details forgetting the complete picture, the spiritual guru looks at the complete picture forgetting the details.
I don’t have certitude about this, it’s just something I read somewhere, but Damon Brand’s book of money uses Nitica as an entity to bring you money, it seems he does provide results but that somehow he is a bit of a joker and not that reliable. Don’t trust my word but do your research.
Thanks for the head’s up, I’ll keep that in mind 
Who knows stuff then?
I think the enlightened guru knows more. Modern day science doesn’t really know much (at least what’s in the text books)
Both can be viewed like a trash can.
Only one is filled and the other is empty and clean.
If you hit the empty one a clear sound will come out of it.
The filled one will not.
The scientist is full of intellect and it is bankrupt, because it is not his own intelligence.
The spiritual teacher is empty but alive and Innocent. His past has died so his response are unpredictable.
To die to the past every moment is intelligence, to remain fresh and innocent is intelligence. Intelligence is the capacity to be reborn again and again. To die to the past is intelligence, and to live in the present is intelligence
I honestly thought that this analogy was going to go in the direction of…
"They’re both full of garbage, but at the end of the day, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure
Yours works, though.
You guys are taking @friday’s joke too seriously. 
The main SAGE thread is a topic where studying science or bodybuilding have already been acknowledged as “spiritual” practices. This is no place to be posting ignorant generalizations.
And I hope that you are actually running SG, as @Invictus clearly is. 
The Nitika entity is sought in Magickal Cashbook, not in Magickal Riches. Yes, it is for small packets of money, only to prove to yourself that Magick works, not for big goals.
It is similar to how it is easier to prove that subliminals work with lighter titles like Ascension.
It would be unfair to call Ascension or SubClub unreliable if you’re using Asc to achieve EOG’s goals. 
If so, then that, to some extent, includes @friday himself.
This is an elegant statement.
The more I read it, the more I like it. I recognize truth in it. It’s an exhortation to humility.
…but it’s also ultimately a statement about you articulating (and clearing a space for) your own path.
And that’s okay.
I imagine that any earnest scientist and/or spiritual practitioner (sometimes they’re the same person, after all) would find some wisdom in what you’ve written
(and which you were only able to write—don’t forget—by using technology, perspectives, and insights that were innovated and shared by scientists and spiritual practitioners).
If your primary criterion for being able to learn from someone is that this person is Perfect and Knows All Things, then settle down and prepare for a very long wait.
If, in contrast, you shift your criterion of being able to learn from someone to the simple condition that: ‘This person has knowledge that I do not. This person is able to communicate and/or demonstrate realities that help me to learn and/or grow’, well, in that case, you’re going to find an endless supply of teachers all around you.
Each one imperfect; all with valuable wisdom to share.
Ive always wondered how a person that doesnt know all things and its imperfect -or believes hes imperfect- can trust in his own criterion to decide he has found that perfect person that knows all, that can teach him.
Well maybe thats why most often than not, after a while the perfect guru begins to show himself as just a man, not necessarily on purpose.
Ive seen so many peoples world collapsing when they find out the guru wasnt just perfect, some run away looking for the real perfect guru, most just go into cognitive dissonance and become religious fanatics. The lucky ones learn as much as they can from everyone that knows something that useful.
Subliminal makers 
That was awesome.
For the sake of contrast, for me, Nitika is ‘she’ 
and not only is she quite reliable, but also generous and enthusiastic, often bringing more than you asked. 
(Got to stand up for my girl 
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Yes it was hilarious 
Okay, no prob.
It’s something I read somewhere and as I don’t remember the source. Glad to hear she’s reliable…guess I must have read in Bune’s political agenda
