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Part XVI: The Good and Evil Natures.1483
“Bound by the thousand ties of Desire for Things and Objects, they are
attached to the body of Lust and Wrath and Avarice. They prostitute their
minds and their sense of justice, in their vain search for wealth wherewith to
gratify their inordinate and swollen appetite for sense experiences.
“They say unto themselves: ‘To-day have I acquired this thing. Tomorrow
shall I acquire the desire of my heart. This wealth have I gained, and tomorrow
shall I gain that other wealth also. This foe hath been slain, and tomorrow
others shall I destroy. I am my own God—there is none other God but Me—
and I shalt enjoy this my world, which is mine for the pleasure I may extract
from it. I am rich and overflowing with wealth. I take precedence among
other men. Where is there one alike so perfect, wise, and shrewd as I? I
will scatter handfuls of money among the throng, that they may realize my
bounty, and know how great, powerful and rich am I—yea, even I.’ In this
manner do these fools talk—they who imagine themselves wise, but who in
reality have disordered and unbalanced minds.
“And such, confounded and confused in their minds by reason of their
delusions, excesses, and vain living—they become entangled in the nets
of their own desires and attachments. And the weight of their objects of
attachment, holding them fast, drags them down into the quicksands of Hell,
which is the repeated rebirth into the lower and lower planes of the mire
and slime of Maternality and Sensuality. There is no Hell like unto this, even
among the imaginings of those who would teach of places of torment and
torture—this is the most fearful Hell of all.
“Yea, and some of these men, in their hypocrisy and desire to appear well
before the world, do even ape piety and true religion. Following the letter
instead of the spirit, they imitate the worship, and perform the churchly
rites and ceremonies, with much show of zeal; with much outward show
and display; and with ostentatious scattering of alms. Their Ignorance, and
Conceit, and Self-esteem follow them into the temple, and they pollute the
holy places with their thievish presence and natures.