# Archive Entry 026: Essential Books and Teachings

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**Category:** References / Teachings

On Human Nature by Schopenhauer - At the very end Schopenhauer writes, that civilization is on a pendulum rocking from despotism or anarchy, and our job as humans with free will is determine how we want our own pendulum to swing. Are you subservient and give your life to the king which is the higher power or God thus surrendering your free will, or do you believe you are God and you are creator of your own will thus driving towards anarchy, a steady slope that he talks about in this essay.

My Inventions by Nikola Tesla - Lot of supernatural as well as gifted prophetic involved. He mentions he never strayed away a single pound as it helped him function to the best of his abilities. He could see very visibly and functionally all the objects and tools within his own mind and could play it all out and visibility in his minds eye see how it would work if it would be a success or failure.

The Corpus Hermeticum - "The wickedness of the soul is ignorance; for the soul that knows nothing of the things that are, neither the nature of them, not that which is good, but is blinded, rushes and dashes against bodily passions." On the contrary the virtue of the soul is knowledge; for he that knows is both good and religious, and already divine.

"Life is the union of the mind and soul. Death is not the destruction of those things that gathered together, but a dissolving of the union."

Conclusion: God Is all things, Good is God, thus if you act Good as a human as we all with our free will granted by God, must choose to be Good.