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Later books have been written for a more general audience and have continued to focus on the role of spirituality in human spiritual unfolding while drawing on science, philosophy and the perennial wisdom tradition for insights that are helpful in understanding spiritual awakening and enlightenment.
The text retains the traditional format of an older man giving advice to a younger man – as the scribe Any, who works in the court of Nefertari, advises his son. [2] However the Instruction of Any is distinguished from earlier works, as its intended audience was the ordinary person rather than the aristocracy.
The text was discovered in Thebes in 1847 by Egyptologist M. Prisse d'Avennes. [2] The Instructions of Ptahhotep are considered didactic wisdom literature belonging to the genre of sebayt . [ 3 ] There are four copies of the Instructions, and the only complete version, Papyrus Prisse , is located in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris . [ 4 ]
The most complete text of the Instruction of Amenemope is British Museum Papyrus 10474, acquired in Thebes by E. A. Wallis Budge in early 1888. [1] [9] The scroll is approximately 12 feet (3.7 m) long by 10 inches (250 mm) wide; the obverse side contains the hieratic text of the Instruction, while the reverse side is filled with a miscellany of lesser texts, including a "Calendar of Lucky and ...
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Spanish: Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia) is a book written in 1647 by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracian. [1] It is a collection of 300 maxims , each with a commentary, on various topics giving advice and guidance on how to live fully, advance socially, and be a better person, that ...
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The most famous examples of wisdom literature in the western world are found in the Bible. [30] [31] Wisdom [a] is a central topic in the Sapiential Books, [b] i.e., Proverbs, Psalms, Job, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Book of Wisdom, Wisdom of Sirach, and to some extent Baruch.