How to be Free from Sin — Page 27
27 the same laws to the spiritual order? Is it possible for any- one who has eyes to remain standing on the brink of a bottomless pit? Can anyone who has ears be unaware of the coming of burglars into his house? Would anyone, who is able to distinguish sweet from sour, eat something bitter and poisonous that results in suffering and death? If we apply these physical phenomena to the spiritual world, we can readily understand that, in order to sustain the spiritual life, one requires a light to show him the paths of danger, one must possess hearing which warns him of the dens of thieves and robbers, and one must have the sense of taste in order to distinguish sweet from bitter and poi- son from antidote. These are the requirements of salvation, and no one who is blind and has not been blessed with light can ever attain salvation through the blood of another. Salvation is not something specific to the Hereafter. True salvation begins in this very life. It is a light that de- scends upon the soul and reveals the path that leads to destruction. Tread the path of truth and wisdom so that you may be led to God, and strengthen your hearts so that you may move towards the truth. Unfortunate is the heart that is cold, and the spirit that is dead, and the con- science that possesses no insight. Become like a pail that is lowered down a well empty and comes out full, and not like a sieve that cannot hold any water. Take care of your [spiritual] health, and rid yourselves of the fever of mate- rialism, whose poisonous influence causes your eyes to go blind, and your ears to go deaf, and which deprives your