Verses



81 – 1 -Paths Of Temptation

8 Seeking The Form (Freedom-Prison)
1 The One Who Seeks (The Created Being)

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810) If such a thing as the “guilty” existed, then the forgiveness of man would exist. Only the Absolute forgives, therefore one can only be guilty before the Absolute, never with those who forgive you, and fool you by placing themselves at the level of the divine.
811) Those who seek and covet are like beasts who hunger for food but will never be satiated. They continuously desire to obtain and possess, and live in conflict with others. They have no friends and, false by nature, surround themselves with prey.
812) You are out of touch with yourself, and surrounded by much form. You need to sell it to acquire other things to enrich yourself. This makes you illusorily poorer. Truly, the path which tempts has enthralled you. You will free yourself when, saturated of this prison, you seek freedom in the Inner Garden.
813) The earth and its treasures are the death of the search for spiritual realization, if one lives to possess and have power. But they are treasures for those who know how to give them, and therefore lose them. They are terrain to walk on for those who seek the Self.
814) Your mind is the domain of your thoughts. In the silence, between form and non-form, lies the reign of Love. Beyond the Threshold that you perceive, the path ends. There lies the beginning and the end of the Way.
815) The obstacles we encounter are the measure of our strength along the path.
816) Those who criticize but do not propose, those who hate and do not forgive, those who join fights without listening to the “adversaries,” those who repeat stock phrases already pronounced by others, those who live only for earthly things, are all like animals in a pack. Without consideration for their own Soul, they live only of mortal bodies. This leads them to disgrace.
817) When we trade in falsity, our coin will be paid with lies.
818) You seek great misery if you seek treasures for yourself. You will discover great riches if… you find yourself.
819) Those who do not comprehend are prey to form, and tend to accumulate it. This blocks the flow of the universe within them. Believing to possess one or more parts, they lose All Things.