With will and reason the blindness and darkness falls

Happy and blessed are those who want to see clearly, who want to

expand their knowledge in order to discover the highest of your being.

But truly, I say to you, you can not achieve this until you make the effort

to remove the bandage that covers your eyes. Man has made himself

doubly guilty, not only because he does not make any effort, so that the

bandage that denies him the knowledge of the highest teachings falls,

but also because he has not freed himself from the shackles of matter

that made him ─ unlike the spiritual delights ─ have seduced to the

physical pleasures. That is why he has enslaved himself under the rule of the

passions and allows his soul to resemble a lame who does nothing to get well.

In all areas I see the majority of people without foundation, everywhere I

only meet the weaker person. And what is this due to? That you do not

have the courage and enough willpower to come out of the dirt you are in,

to overcome the inertia that forges the bonds that bind to matter, and this

is the source of all vices, all mistakes. But man does not want to make use

of the power with which he is endowed, which is the will. The will, which

should be the unrestricted legislator, who should become the supreme leader

and fight, supported by reason, power against power, domination against

domination: on the one hand the passions and the desires, on the other

the reason and the will, until the latter can win the battle and you can

say that you are free.

Then you will be the great prophets, the great enlightened ones,

the supermen. Then you will be able to live with the wild animals

and play with reptiles. Because truly, I say to you, it is the incriminating

transgressions that cause you to fear those little brothers of yours, and

that is why they are attacking you. But if you take the time to observe

the humans, you will discover that there are people who are wilder

than tigers and who have more poison than the cobra.

Do not believe that the prophets of antiquity could do wonders because

they were destined for them. No, it was because they fought until

they won and became true servants of the temple.

But verily, I say to you, the one who strives hardest to gain the truth is

subject to wrongdoing and passions. But you have the light that

enlightens you, which is the divine power, the immortal and pure nature,

the indestructible essence that animates everything and carries man to

the highest bliss. This indestructible essence is the pure element that

every human being possesses. But man poisoned himself with earthly

pleasures, and therefore this indestructible substance, this immortal

being, was covered with the mortal garment, and it sacrificed

itself voluntarily.

But by the power it possesses, it will gradually restore the dignity

of mortal man, and he will then crave for the pleasures of the immortal

fruit, and forever renounce to seek the ruinous pleasures which bring

the bad fruit , But what do you need to accomplish all this? ─

The knowledge of how to use your strength and energy to work as

real ministers of the temple, so that you can conquer and remove the

bandage that covers your eyes, so that you can see clearly and do not

misstep, nor catch yourself in the dark.

I have spoken to you of what you call secrets. But you must study

my word thoroughly to perceive the whole light. I want you to

understand this great truth, that neither God nor nature have secrets

for man. It is the weak understanding of divine instruction that has

rendered man incapable of following the true law. Therefore, he

wanders from here to there, from side to side, without understanding

anything, without feeling anything, without understanding that God is in

the spirit of man and always makes himself felt for his benefit.

A. M. Hosta

Source: The Book of True Life, Volume VII, Teaching 203, verses 1-10