And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 8:32
Plato… compares men who have never tried to face the truth to prisoners
in a deep underground cavern, who have been so chained… that they cannot
turn their heads. In front of them is the rocky wall of their prison-house.
Behind them and above them is a causeway , on which fires are burning, and
along this causeway pass wayfarers singing and conversing and bearing burdens,
whose shadows are thrown by the firelight on the cavern wall, and whose voices
are reflected back from it.
The imprisoned denizens of the dark cave, seeing
only these flickering shadows, take them for substances and realities; and
hearing only these vague echoes, take them for songs and voices….
“Imprisoned in self-chosen darkness, steeped in emptinesses, how few among
living men even care for that wisdom which consists in seeing the things that
are, and seeing them as they are!
Let a man but once catch a glimpse of the
true light and he learns utterly to despise the dim rush-light of this world’s
tinselled stage. Let one ray out of eternity shine down upon him, and for him
the world and the things of the world shrivel into insignificance.”
From Streams In The Desert Volume 2 August 23rd by Mrs.Charles E. Cowman