MAN, KNOW THEYSELF!

man, know theyself! ~ 15 ~ sound the Lord’s alert? “Mankind! Worship Me. Fulfill your obligations to one another and live in accordance with My will. I will punish those who fail to do this in a way that cannot be imagined. They will writhe forever in a torment from which they will never be able to free themselves.” What happens, indeed? Everyone has heard this warning, but no one acknowledges its force, its authority, its essential truth. The general attitude is to treat it as a matter of no consequence, to be thought about later, or perhaps not at all. To gain worldly advantages, people do not stop at anything. In this way the caravan of life is hastening onwards to a point of no return. People start in response to the siren’s wail, but ignore the warnings of the Lord of the Universe. Far from hastening to do what is right at the very sound of it, no one even alters his pace. What is the reason for this very strange state of affairs? It is simply that the siren warns us of the dangers of this world, the consequences of which will immediately be felt, whereas the danger signals given by the Lord relate to the after-life, which is