Elihu's lessons. The unity of life. The two selfs. The devil. Love the saviour
of men. The David of the light. Goliath of the dark.
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 selfs; 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 higher 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
everthing 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, know 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 favours 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 sympathise, 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 saviour he must look
within; and when the demon self has been dethroned the saviour, Love, will be
exulted to the throne of power. 23 The David of the light is Purity, who slays
the strong Goliath of the dark, and seats the saviour, Love, upon the throne.
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