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BLIND MAN
A symbol of mentality immersed in the concerns of
the lower life, and devoid of spiritual perception.
Bartimæus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the wayside. And when he
heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say,
Jesus thou son of David have mercy on me." - MARK X. 46, 47.
This “blind man” is he who is not spiritually awakened, but who
reveres the form of religion, and who addresses his God according to
hearsay, not recognising the Divine,—the Son of God. He has to learn
the truth and aspire, ere his eyes can be opened.
“'New spiritual sight does not create, but reveals, the reality. And
in all such openings, whether gradual or sudden, the Lord cometh,
and his coming is more often than not connected with some pain of
the new birth, fires and purgings that accompany the operations for
cataract performed by the Great Physician on the spiritual eye. He
to whose intuitions the Lord has thus come is positively a new man;
I mean, all limitations are removed from his Godward thought." -
BASIL WILBERFORCE, Serm., The Message of Advent.
"The blind (spiritually blind) man hath forgotten the Name; the
perverse is stone-blind. His transmigration shall cease not; he
shall be ruined by death and birth." - “Hymn of Gura Nanak." -
MACAULIFFE, The Sikh Religion, Vol. I. 263.
“Blind and naked signifies that they are without the understanding
of truth, and without the will of good." - SWEDENBORG, Apocalypse
Revealed, n. 153.
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