“May you ever seek the unknown and strive courageously against the unseen. May your spirit be high on the journey in this place, where so many men grow weary on the road. Be not one who sits following the ways of other men, but one who moves along a path of his own choosing.
“Keep the love of life given men, or life is lost, but cast aside the fear of death, for it is a small payment for a life well lived. Rejoice in living, and walk in the sun, avoiding the shadows. Remember that though life is to be enjoyed to the full, its enjoyment is ever subordinate to duty.
“Be a man, my son. Be not a man of unbridled wrath, for such are rarely without trouble, though righteous wrath will lend strength to your arm. Be a man above pettiness and greed, above meanness and deceit.
“Keep forever the joys of friendships well made, and serve your friends well. Never betray friendship or turn it to serve your own ends, lest you become something less than a man. Carry high gladness in your heart, and never cease to wonder at the marvels in life. Not a day shall pass, but you will see something new to enrich your thoughts. Look at life as a man and not as an ox. Wonder at the great and awesome manifestations of God, such as sunlight and thunder, the dew and the stars, the sandstorm and the murmur of waters. Never let your eyes become dulled to the growth of trees, to the rising of the waters and to the return of the harvests.
-The Kolbrin Bible (Man:29:24-27)
Strive Courageously
Telling us to strive courageously against the unseen means that we must work against the unseen forces and beings of darkness and not allow them to control us or turn us away from the path of righteousness. When the quote says “may your spirit be high,” it means high in the sense of moving into higher dimensions or higher levels of consciousness.
Be One Who Moves
When we decide to start developing our spiritual Self, we are not all starting at the same point, and we do not all move at the same speed. That doesn’t matter. We all have to proceed at our own speed. The important thing is that we keep moving forward.
Love of Life
We should all love life, and that means physical life as well as spiritual. It also means loving the lives of other beings, not only humans. Highly developed spiritual people are always friendly with animals and all living things. They understand that even though the physical realm is the creation of the Demiurge, all life comes from God.
Unbridled Wrath
We are seeing much of this today. Some people think that they can be angry and violent, and even believe they are being good Christians by being such. But Jesus never taught that, and spiritual people know that being angry and violent only attracts anger and violence to yourself.
Keep Friendships
We all benefit from having friends. That applies only to actual friends, not the kind that many people have on social media, where they have thousands of “friends,” most of whom they have never actually met. Spiritual people usually don’t have many friends, but the ones they have are true friends. They honor those friends by doing what they can to help them, especially by helping them to awaken and develop their spiritual faculties.
