8. fejezet:

Elihu leckéi. Az élet egysége. A két magvunk. Az ördög.
A szeretet - az emberek megváltása. A fény Dávidja.
A sötétség Óriása.

1. Ismét találkozott Elihu tanítványaival a szent és sérthetetlen ligetben
és mondta,
2. Senki nem él önmagának, mert minden élő dolog korlátozott minden más élő dologhoz való kötelékekkel.
3. A tiszta szív boldoggá üdvözít.
4. Ők nem tesznek másoknak olyat, amit önmaguknak ők sem akarnak, hogy mások megtegyék.
5. Itt van két én-mag; a magasabb és az alacsonyabb éönmagunk.
6. A magasabb én emberi szellem lélekkel felruházva,
Isten formájára készült.
7. Az alacsonyabb én, az érzéki én, a vágyak teste, a magasabb én visszatükröződése, a hús homályos éterei eltorzították ezt.
8. Az alacsonyabb én egy illúzió, és eltűnik; a magasabb én Isten az emberben, és nem fog eltűnni.
9. Az alacsonyabb én az igazság megszemélyesítőjének a megfordítottja, és így jelenik meg a hamisság.
10. A magasabb én az igazság, az irgalom, a szeretet és ami helyénvaló.

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CHAPTER 8

Elihu's lessons. The unity of life. The two selves. The
devil. Love--the savior of men. The David of the light.
Goliath of the dark.

1. AGAIN Elihu met his pupils in the sacred grove and
said,
2. No man lives unto himself; for every living thing is bound
by cords to every other living thing.
3. Blest are the pure in heart; for they will love and not
demand love in return.
4. They will not do to other men what they would not have
other men do unto them.
5. There are two selves; the higher and the lower self.
6. The higher self is human spirit clothed with soul, made in
the form of God.
7. The lower self, the carnal self, the body of desires, is a
reflection of the higher self, distorted by the murky ethers
of the flesh.
8. The lower self is an illusion, and will pass away; the
higher self is God in man, and will not pass away.
9. The lower self is the embodiment of truth reversed, and
so is falsehood manifest.
10. The higher self is justice, mercy, love and right; the
lower self is what the higher self is not.
11. The lower self breeds hatred, slander, lewdness,
murders, theft, and everything that harms; the higher self is
mother of the virtues and the harmonies of life.
12. The lower self is rich in promises, but poor in
blessedness and peace; it offers pleasure, joy and
satisfying gains; but gives unrest and misery and death.
13. It gives men apples that are lovely to the eye and
pleasant to the smell; their cores are full of bitterness and
gall.
14. If you would ask me what to study I would say,
yourselves; and when you will have studied them, and then
would ask me what to study next, I would reply,
yourselves.
15. He who knows well his lower self, knows the illusions of
the world, knows of the things that pass away; and he who
knows his higher self, knows God; knows well the things
that cannot pass away.
16. Thrice blessed is the man who has made purity and
love his very own; he has been ransomed from the perils of
the lower self and is himself his higher self.
17. Men seek salvation from an evil that they deem a living
monster of the nether world; and they have gods that are
but demons in disguise; all powerful, yet full of jealousy
and hate and lust;
18. Whose favors must be bought with costly sacrifice of
fruits, and of the lives of birds, and animals, and human
kind?
19. And yet these gods possess no ears to hear, no eyes
to see, no heart to sympathize, no power to save.
20. This evil is myth; these gods are made of air, clothed
with shadows of a thought.
21. The only devil from which men must be redeemed is
self, the lower self. If man would find his devil he must look
within; his name is self.
22. If man would find his savior he must look within; and
when the demon self has been dethroned the savior, Love,
will be exalted to the throne of power.
23. The David of the light is Purity, who slays the strong
Goliath of the dark, and seats the savior, Love, upon the
throne.