Questions And Answers

By The Pathwork Guide

Greetings, my dearest friends. Blessings for al of you. Blessed is this hour. The time has come again when it will be good to have a question and answer period, so I am ready for your questions.

QUESTION: Can you explain the Biblical passage: "The word of God was given to Moses: Thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, fot for foot, burning for burning?"

ANSWER: The meaning of these words has been grossly misunderstood by mankind. It has been interpreted to mean that God is a punishing, cruel, god of retribution. Of course it is not so and the words were never meant to imply this. The real meaning simply affirms the utter justice of cosmic law, or of your inner, psychological law. The more you work on the path of self-finding, the more you are bound to find this to be true. You will find how you yourself cause all your difficulties. You have already stopped regarding these words as theory, but the better you progress, the more you will truly understand just how and why you cause your own hardships. And by doing so, you gain the key to a change in your life.

Most of you have begun this self-search in good faith, yet at this early stage you can barely begin to see how you are responsible for your misfortunes, and therefore how just this universe is. Only when you reach certain inner depths, perhaps after a long time of hard and sincere endeavor, do you begin to see clearly what in you has so precisely brought about the hardship that you felt as an injustice. The more findings of this sort you make, the more can you realize the true meaning of self-responsibility and of divine justice, without any ideas of punishment and retribution. You begin to understand that whatever you give forth, no matter how hidden or subtle, is returned to you. But you first know and then deeply feel that this is not due to a stiff, rigid, merciless law, but it is your own inner law. And in that you realize the glory of God's love and wisdom. The better you understand your own causes and effects, the more convinced you must become of the marvel of this benign creation. That is the meaning of these words. The various items cited in this saying are, of course, symbolic. If you want to, I shall explain the meaning of these symbols. (Please.)

EYE: The eye symbolizes seeing, the capacity to see, not only outwardly, but also the inner view and vista. In other words, understanding. The more you understand yourself, the better do you understand others. This you know. But also, the more you understand, the better you will be understood. This truth may have dawned upon some of you as you really made progress, and it happens as the haze and the fog of your confusion lifts. As it lifts, your real self reveals itself automatically and others perceive you in truth as well. There is no better way -- indeed, no other way -- of finding this to be true than through the path of self-searching, of self-understanding, and of self-analysis. Anyone of you who has reached some victory within himself will understand exactly what I mean, not only theoretically, but he will have experienced this truth. Your real seeing and understanding begins only when you see and understand yourself. And in that measure, you will be understood. With such understanding, you will see that the meaning of these words has a positive, rather than a negative implication. It does not mean: "If you do wrong, then you will be punished by retribution." It means: "As you see and understand yourself and others, so do you make it possible, by lifting the veil, to be seen and understood."