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"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 neighbor, and against themselves -- to
themselves by not paying the debt of virtue, and
towards Me by not paying the debt of honor 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
recognize Me in themselves on account of self-love,
like the Jews and the ministers of the Law who, with
envy and self-love, blinded themselves so that they
did not recognize 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 honor and glory to Me, and to
Him, who was one thing with Me, and like blind ones
committed injustice, persecuting Him with much
ignominy, even to the death of the Cross.
"Thus are such as these unjust to themselves, to Me,
and to their neighbor, unjustly selling the flesh of
their dependents, and of any person who falls into
their hands."
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