The Dialogue

How some others hold positions of authority, and bring forth fruits of injustice.

" THERE are others who hold their heads high by their position of authority, and who bear the banner of injustice — using injustice against Me, God, and against their neigh-

A TREATISE OF DISCRETION Si

hour, and against themselves — to themselves by not pay ing the debt of virtue, and towards Me by not paying the debt of honour in glorifying and praising My Name, which debt they are bound to pay. But they, like thieves, steal what is Mine, and give it to the service of their own sensuality. So that they commit injustice towards Me and towards themselves, like blind and ignorant men who do not recognise Me in themselves on account of selflove, like the Jews and the ministers of the Law who, with envy and self-love, blinded themselves so that they did not recognise the Truth, My only-begotten Son, and rendered not His due to the Eternal Truth, who was amongst them, as said My Truth : ' The Kingdom of God is among you? But they knew it not, because, in the aforesaid way, they had lost the light of reason, and so they did not pay their debt of honour and glory to Me, and to Him, who was one thing with Me, and like blind ones committed injustice, per secuting Him with much ignominy, even to the death of the Cross.

"Thus are such as these unjust to themselves, to Me, and to their neighbour, unjustly selling the flesh of their dependants, and of any person who falls into their hands."