FREEDOM IS NOT FREE

(Saying), "We are indeed
Left with debts (for nothing):
The Day will the Hypocrites-
Men and women-say
To the Believers: "Wait
For us! Let us borrow
(A light) from your light!"
It will be said: "Turn
Ye back to your rear!
Then seek a lught (where
Ye can)!" So a wall
Will be put up betwixt them,
With a gate therein.
Within it will be Mercy
Throughout, and without it,
All alongside, will be
(Wrath and) Punishment!

The cultivator contracts dobts for seed and gives
labour for ploughing, sowing, watering, and weeding,
in the hope of reaping a harvest. Should he not give thanks
to God when his harvest is in?

Watchful preparation in Life, and the light of Faith
which reflects the divine Light, are matter of personal
Life, and cannnot be borrowed from another. So, in Christ's
parable of the Ten Virgins, when the foolish ones had let
their lamps go out for want of oil, they asked to borrow oil
from the wise ones, but the wise ones answered and said,
"Not so; . . . but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy
for yourselves".

The wall will divide the Good from the Evil. But the
Gateway in it will show that communication will
not be cut off. Evil must realise that Good-i.e., Mercy
and Felicity-had been within its reach, and the Wrath
which envelops it is due to its own rejection of Mercy.

1) Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,
2) Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not
their hands when they eat bread.
3) But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the
Commandment of God by your tradition?
4) For God commanded saying, Honour thy father and mother: and He
that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
5) But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a
gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
6) And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made
the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
7) Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you saying,
8) This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoreth me wtih
their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9) But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
10) And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
11) Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out
of the mouth, this defilrth a man.
12) Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees
were offened, and they heard this saying?
13) But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not
planted, shall be rooted up.

FREEDOM

Of old sat Freedom on the heights,
The thunders breaking at her feet;
Above her shook the starry lights;
She heard the torrents meet.

There in her place she did rejoice,
Self-gather'd in her prophet-mind,
But fragments of her mighty voice
Came rolling on the wind.

Then stept she down thro' town and field
To mingle with the human race,
And part by part to men reveal'd
The fullness of her face-

Grave mother of majestic works,
From her isle-altar gazing down,
Who, Godlike, grasps the triple forks,
And, king-like, wears the crown.

Her open eyes desire the truth.
The wisdom of a thousand years
Is in them. May perpetual youth
Keep dry their light from tears;

That her fair form may stand and shine,
Make bright our days and light our dreams,
Turning to scorn with lips divine
The falsehood of extremes!

Consumed by fire (from heaven). slain,

Burn sacrifices firgured in the Mosaic Law, and
in the religious ceremonies long before Moses,
but it is not true that the Mosaic Law laid down
a fire from heavens on a burnt sacrifice as a
test of the credentials of Prophets. Even if it
had been so, did the Jews obey the Prophets who
showed this Sign? In Leviticus ix. 23-24, we
are told a burnt offering prepared by Moses
and Aaron: and there came a fire out from before
the Lord, and consumed upon the altar the burnt and
the fat." Yet the people rebelied frequently against
Moses. Abel's offering (sacrifice) was probably a
burnt offering: it was accepted by God, and he
was killed by Cain out of jealousy: Gen. iv. 3-8.
Mosaic sacrifies were no longer-needed by the
people of Jesus or the people of Muhammad.



LEVITICUS 9:23-24 Nadab and Abihu

And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle
of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the
people: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all
the people.

And there came a fire out before the LORD, and
consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the
fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted,
and fell on their faces.


GENESIS 4:3-8 Birth of Cain and Abel

And in process of time it came to pass, that
Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering
unto the LORD.

And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of
his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had
respect unto Abel and to his offering:

But unto Cain and to his offering he had not
respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his
countenance fell.

And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou
wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?
and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the
door. And unto thee shalt be his desire, and thou
shalt rule over him.

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it
came to pass, when they were in the field, that
Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew
him.