Logos 274

morality is the basic principle of all purification. One cannot purify oneself unless one knows what is moral and what is not.

Unfortunately, everything in this material world turns out to be more or less immoral. However, we must nevertheless distinguish good from evil. Hence the regulatory principles. By adhering to it, we can access the spiritual plane and transcend the influence of the three attributes of matter. Passion is the force that binds us to this material universe. Nature keeps us prisoners of the material universe through the chains of sexual life. This is how passion is defined.

The Eternal Supreme says: “It is lust alone, which born in contact with passion, then changed into anger, constitutes the devastating enemy of the world and source of sin.”

The Passion includes the lascivious desires which, not fulfilled, incite us to anger. All of this keeps us trapped in the material universe. As soon as the service of devotion is firmly established in the heart, the influences of passion and ignorance, such as lust and greed, fade away. The holy being then fixes himself in virtue and finds perfect happiness. Subjected to the lower influences of matter, passion and ignorance, we become as greedy as lascivious. Morality offers us a way to escape the clutches of greed and lust. We then come to virtue, from where we can reach the spiritual plane.

Logos 275

There is no resurrection of the body or eternal punishment, for these are lies of which Satan is the author.

The emperor Justinian had the dogma which has been authoritative since in Christianity “of salvation determined over one life” adopted instead. Dogma, eminently questionable for different reasons: How can we speak of God's goodness and mercy, if God is to condemn a being to eternal damnation on the judgment of one life?

If the soul, the vital principle which animates the body, is eternal, as Christian dogma rightly affirms, why then limit oneself to “one life?”

The shortcomings and shortcomings of such a philosophy are obvious. Eternal damnation does not exist. It is the product of the fertile imagination of theologians