Chapter 21
This is the sermon of the Voice, as delivered in Shalam to those who were admitted on trial:
My Voice is with all men, says Jehovih.
Whoever is admonished against wrongdoing has heard Me. By that he shall know My Presence.
The man of Uz cries out in mockery: Who has heard Jehovih? Do the Faithists say, they have heard the Creator’s voice? How can empty space speak? ||
But I am sufficient to all My creations. The ant hears Me, as does the bee, the bird and the spider, and all kinds of living things which I created.
How do you think they hear Me, learning to do My will? Do I go to them with lips and tongue, or with a trumpet? [No.]
I am Spirit; I am the Soul of things. By way of the soul My Voice comes to every living creature that I created.
But man locks up his soul, and will not hear Me.
He pays attention only to that which comes upon his corporeal senses. And this darkness grows upon him, generation after generation.
Then he cries out: Where is Jehovih? Who has heard Him? Perhaps the ancients; but no one in this day.
Jehovih says: I am like one on the top of a mountain, calling to all people to come up to Me. But they pay attention to the darkness at the foot of the mountain, calling them down into corpor.
Now, behold, whatever you hear, see, read, or any indulgence, that raises you upward, the same is My Voice to you.
But whatever you hear, see or read that casts you downward, is the voice of darkness.
Whoever studies to know the right, shall hear Me; whoever strives to be all truth, to himself and to others, already hears My Voice.
Whoever indulges in anger, vengeance, or wrongdoing, casts a veil up between Me and himself; he shuts out My Voice.
It is a talent to hear Me; I bestowed it upon all the living; it is seated in the soul.
By cultivation, it grows; yes it becomes mighty, above all other talents.
By its culture, man attains to all possibilities, for so I created him.
When My Voice is weak, because of the darkness of man, he calls Me conscience, or sets Me aside as a faint impression.
But with culture, behold, My Voice comes to man with words and with power.
And he knows Me, and is mighty in good works and wisdom.
And he becomes a proof before the world, that My Voice is with him.
Jehovih says: Whoever has not heard Me, is in darkness indeed. He has not yet turned his thoughts inward to purify himself and seek wisdom.
Whoever has heard Me, knows it, and all the world cannot convince him to the contrary.