Bedazzled by Material Things

“My land, what have you become? You have left the true path of your faith and wandered into strange byways. You are bemused and bedazzled with things that disturb the senses, and have become like a ship adrift without oars. You have abandoned the spirit that inspired you and sought satisfaction among lifeless things of Earth. You have spurned the stern discipline required to win the hand of love and trodden the well-worn path of carnal satisfaction. You have turned to the ways of the harlot, and out of your harlotry, you have wrought destruction. You no longer delight in the serene mystery of the stars above; your pleasures are in the filth beneath your feet. Where once you gazed upward in awe, now you look downward in degradation. O that this is the self-chosen fate of my land!
“I go, for go I must. I depart, for destiny demands it. When his motherland collapses about him like an undermined palace built on a foundation of mud, then it is not a time for hesitation. One man cannot stem a flood with his hand. When his habitation falls apart, it is time to seek another. Perhaps nations, like men, grow old and decay. My land is old, a hundred and twenty generations have passed through it since Osireh brought light to men. Four times, the stars have moved to new positions, and twice the sun has changed the direction of his journey. Twice, the Destroyer has struck Earth and three times the Heavens have opened and shut. Twice, the land has been swept clean by water.”
-The Kolbrin Bible (Man:33:4-5)
Left the True Path
We know that this part of the Kolbrin Bible was written by Egyptian priests, so the land that has left the true path is Egypt. Leaving the true path is not something that happens overnight, but gradually over a period of time. To some degree, people can only blame themselves for wandering into what the quote calls “strange byways,” but we also have to understand that the dark forces and beings help lead people astray, and that can’t be ignored. Some people wonder why God created evil and darkness, or why he allows it to exist. You can’t have free choice if there is only one thing to choose from. God has to allow the dark ones to control us to some degree in the physical realm so that we can turn from darkness and choose Light.
Bemused and Bedazzled
I don’t think it is accurate to say that people are “bemused and bedazzled with things that disturb the senses”. It is actually things that bring pleasure to the senses that we are attracted to. It is accurate to say that in most cases, such people are like ships adrift without oars that are “blown by the wind” in random directions as they seek more and more gratification for the physical senses, ignoring their spirits in the process.
Mystery of the Stars
The mystery of the stars is really a reference to the Spiritual Sun. When people become materialistic, they do turn away from the Sun and look downward to the material things of lower dimensions.
I Must Depart
The author realizes that to stay in the fallen land of Egypt is not wise, since there is no way a small number of people can bring it back to it’s former spiritual greatness. As he says, it is possible that nations, like people, grow old and decay. Egypt was a very old civilization, and that might be what happened there. This may be similar to what happened to the once great civilization of Atlantis. From a materialistic viewpoint, it may have been a war or a plague that destroyed Atlantis (it did not sink into the sea), but this may have happened because their great spiritual civilization had descended into materialism and was no longer protected by God.








