How intellectuals became overrated a long time ago

Influenced by Aristotle, St. Thomas said, “The desire of man is to know something whole and perfect,” and he said, “ Intellectual natures have a greater affinity to the whole than other beings.” So we see how the the body of people ordained for religious duties and how intellectuals in general became overrated a long time ago, which continues to this day.

The deepest desire of man, the most sacred desire of man is to be something whole and perfect and not merely to know something whole and perfect, and being something whole and perfect is accomplished by materially evolving the mind and the body toward a more whole and perfect being, and not merely intellectually. The human species is not something whole and perfect.

Intellectual's curbed some of their arrogance in the Renaissance and the Enlightenment by emphasizing reason and individualism, but they soon recovered their old arrogance and made a religion out of reason and anointed themselves as the new secular clergy.

Merely arriving at knowledge of things is incomplete knowledge, even mans religious beatitude is only a peak material experience of bliss brought about by strict ascetic discipline, it is not a spiritual experience of God.

If we want to be and know the whole and the perfect we will have to materially evolve our minds and bodies to ascending levels of the whole and perfect in the material and supermaterial world. That is how we arrive at real Godhood.