The Buddha said:
“We must not believe in a thing said merely because it is said; nor traditions because they have been handed down from Buddha”antiquity; nor rumors, as such; nor writings by sages because sages wrote them nor fancies that we may suspect to have been inspired in us by a Deva; nor from inferences drawn from some haphazard assumption we may have made; nor of what seems an analogical necessity; nor on the mere authority of our teachers or masters. But we are to believe when the writing, doctrine, or saying is corroborated by our own reason and consiousness.”Â
Conclusion:
“I taught you not to believe merely because you have heard, but when you believed of your consciousness, then to act accordingly and abundantly.”
Secret Doctrine 111.401