Consequences, the Price of Mistakes, and Human Freedom Between Life and Corruption
Are there consequences that a person should prepare for or beware of? Yes, there are consequences, and the person who lives without paying attention to them will face bad consequences, while the person who remains aware of consequences will face consequences that are lighter and gentler.
As we previously presented that rule which may appear contradictory on the surface, yet reveals something profound at its core: the one who feels shame does not need to feel shame, while the one who does not feel shame should feel shame. Who, then, should feel shame? The one who does not feel it. And who does not need to feel it? The one who does feel it.
The same rule applies to consequences: the one who does not consider consequences deserves the harshest consequences, while the one who considers them deserves consequences that are lighter and gentler.
From here, a person may ask: Why should I restrain myself when I am free? Why should I impose restrictions on myself in something over which I have freedom?
The answer is simple: I restrain myself so that no one else will restrain me.
A person who does not restrain himself, and who does not make the effort to search, review, verify, improve, purify himself, and reach the truth, will eventually be forced to do so against his will and under compulsion, carrying resentment and a burden instead of choosing the path of correction for himself.
Yes, I am free. One expression of my freedom is that I can now ignore consequences and pretend that I neither see nor hear. I can shield my conscience, behave as though I have no heart, and consume my freedom for as long as I still have room to do so.
But I can also choose something else: to save my freedom.
I save it for the day when freedom becomes precious, and for the difficult, narrow day when I no longer have much room to move. A person who consumes his freedom and himself without considering consequences may find, when those consequences arrive, that he has lost both himself and his freedom, leaving him with no room to save himself.
Here an important meaning emerges: not everything I am capable of doing now is something I should do. Freedom is not about consuming all my possibilities; rather, true freedom may be knowing when to use them and when to save them.
Hallucination and the Illusion of Immortality
From this idea, we move to the issue of hallucination that we discussed previously.
We said that one of the characteristics of a person experiencing hallucination is that he believes himself to be immortal. If a person believes himself to be immortal, he no longer feels the need to distinguish between poison and what is not poison, or between what is sound and what is corrupt, because he treats himself as though he were above consequences.
The immortal, according to this conception, does not need to examine what he eats or drinks, nor to be careful about what enters his existence, because he believes that nothing will be able to harm him.
From here, we distinguished between sound awareness and the awareness of hallucination. Indeed, we said that hallucination, in its essence, is not sound awareness at all, because it is a state in which a person abandons the measure of right and wrong, the measure of corruption and soundness, and the consideration of consequences.
The hallucinating person treats himself as though he were above accountability, above measurement, and above the scales. Therefore, he can consume corruption, swallow it, practice it, and produce it, because he imagines that nothing will happen to him.
For this reason, the punished one is the person who does not anticipate consequences, and the one who does not seek quality is already in a position of punishment.
Satan and the Illusion of Escaping Consequences
Within this conception, Satan appears as the clearest example of hallucination: a being who imagines that he has proven his alleged immortality by consuming poisons and harboring corruption within himself without dying.
He lives against nature and moves against what is right, yet his existence does not end immediately. This causes him to imagine that he has escaped consequences through his cleverness, and that he has been able to violate nature and sacredness without paying the price.
But his continued existence is not evidence of salvation; rather, it may itself be part of the consequence.
According to this conception, Satan does not live true life; he exists between life and death. He has neither tasted life in its complete reality and sacredness, nor died and brought his existence to an end. He is trapped in an intermediate state because he wants life but does not want to face death, and wants to escape the truth awaiting him.
From here, we understand hallucination as an attempt to live without consequences: for a being to practice corruption within and outside himself, then imagine that by doing so he has proven his immortality and no longer needs the conditions and obligations that protect him from error, defect, and corruption.
But the result is not true life; it is a corrupted life—a life that reaches neither the fullness of life nor the finality of death.
Between Masculinity and Femininity, and Between Life and Death
In this context, one of the symbols previously discussed can be understood: Satan as a being wavering between masculinity and femininity.
In the symbolism we are discussing here, masculinity is associated with death, while femininity is associated with life. Satan is that being who does not want death, despite being dead in his original state, while at the same time wanting to live.
For this reason, he wavers between the two sides: between life and death, and between masculinity and femininity.
He is dead but does not want to die, and he wants life but cannot fully attain it. Thus, he remains caught between the two states: he neither dies and ends, nor lives and fully experiences life.
Here the idea of punishment returns to the forefront: the one who knows his consequence and then refuses to face it wants to return to life without paying the price for what he has done.
This leads us to the concept of hallucination as a kind of resuscitation and coma. It was previously said that hallucination resembles the state of a patient in intensive care or a coma; he does not live a genuinely new life, but rather experiences an inner life in which memories repeat, overlap, and scenes recur.
From here, this idea became connected with the idea of reincarnation: that a person repeats the same life while believing that he is undergoing a new experience, whereas in reality he is repeating the same thing and reaching the same result because he is fleeing from his consequence or refusing to accept it.
The more a person wants life without consequences, the more distorted his life becomes and the more its quality declines, until he finds himself between life and death: he does not want death, yet he cannot live true life.
The Punishment That Comes From a Person and Returns to Him
From here, we can also understand the image of the punished man and the punished woman that was previously presented.
In that symbolism, there is a male who punishes through femininity, and a female who punishes through masculinity; meaning that punishment does not remain on one side, but moves between them. Each punishes through the other, and the other punishes within him.
This leads to understanding Satan as the being who sends punishment and receives punishment at the same time.
He produces corruption, then receives corruption. He sends poison and consumes it. Therefore, he is poisoned from both sides: by what he does and by what returns to him.
This is the mechanism of hallucination that we discussed: a person imagines himself to be immortal, believing that he can receive poison without dying and send poison without being harmed.
But poison does not disappear simply because a person sends it to someone else; rather, it returns to him in another form.
Despair of What Is Right
There is another common element among all these states: an essential despair of doing what is right, of goodness, and of facing the truth.
This despair may not announce itself directly, but it appears in the eyes, words, and actions.
It may appear in certain behaviors associated with infectious diseases; there are those who become infected with a disease and then seek to transmit it to others, not because they want healing, but because they have surrendered to despair and transformed their pain into a desire to inflict the same pain upon others.
In the context of this discussion, this image is not intended to generalize a judgment about every sick person, but rather to present a specific model of a person who surrenders to corruption until he transforms from a recipient of harm into a spreader of it.
Thus corruption operates hierarchically: one person transmits harm to ten, the ten to a hundred, and the hundred to others, until the harm spreads among everyone.
Here the satanic person appears in this symbolism: he wants to be in a relationship with everyone because he carries something poisonous within himself and wants to transmit it to others so that they too will be punished, after which they begin, in turn, to transmit the punishment to others.
The reason is that he already lives within consequences, and therefore becomes indifferent to them; he does not consider consequences because he feels that he is already living them.
Poison and Punishment That Begins at the Moment of the Mistake
One of the most important ideas to understand here is that punishment does not necessarily begin at the moment when the final result of a mistake appears.
Once poison is consumed, its effect has already begun.
If a person consumes poison, it is not accurate to say that punishment begins later when the result appears; rather, consuming the poison itself is entering into the consequence.
In the symbolic sense we are discussing, the person who has consumed the poison has already entered the consequence, and is then faced with two choices: either to expel the poison and cleanse himself of it, or to become a source of poison and transmit it to others.
If he rejects the poison, he begins the path back to his original state before the punishment.
But if he harbors it within himself and contributes to its spread, he does not rid himself of it; instead, he becomes part of its spread, and his consequences increase.
This does not mean that a person benefits from the spread of poison; quite the opposite. The more pain spreads, the more those who suffer feel it, because the punished one has not lost his senses and has not become free from the effect of what he produces.
Therefore, the best thing to do is to return the poison rather than spread it.
But returning poison is not easy, because the poisons we are discussing here are not all of the same kind.
Paying the Price of a Mistake
Here we arrive at a fundamental issue: paying the price of a mistake.
What is the price of a mistake?
The price of a mistake is to stop committing it and to repair it.
If you make a mistake, the first price you should pay is to stop making it. If you can repair what you have damaged, then repair it. If you cannot repair it completely, then at the very least, stop continuing it.
That is the price.
But if a person continues making the mistake and then contributes to its spread, this does not free him from punishment; rather, it brings him into additional consequences.
Here one of the fundamental differences appears between the person who wants to escape from the mistake and the person who wants to escape from its price.
Satan, according to this conception, does not want to pay the price.
He wants to obtain the result without submitting to the conditions that make the result deserved. He wants to take without paying, to make mistakes without bearing them, and to live without considering consequences.
Why Are Conditions Rejected?
Conditions, according to this conception, are what give things their true measure.
This is why Satan escapes conditions; because conditions restrain him and return him to his true size.
When conditions are established, he can no longer maneuver as he wishes. In order to eat, drink, nourish himself, and act without limits, he must first challenge the conditions themselves.
Here we understand why unconditional relationships become a central idea in this context.
A casual free sexual relationship, or a relationship that is not governed by conditions and boundaries, is presented here as a corrupt relationship; not because mistakes are impossible or because human beings never make mistakes, but because removing conditions, removing the price, and removing measurement and balance leaves the relationship without boundaries that protect it from corruption.
The issue is not about the name: whether it is called unconditional love, true love, or a free relationship, what matters is its mechanism.
If both partners carry a sexual energy that is chaotic, random, unrestricted, undisciplined, unconstructive, and unproductive, and they then come together in a relationship governed by none of the principles of safety, protection, purity, growth, or order, the relationship, within this framework, becomes transient, chaotic, unconstructive, and unproductive—carried under the banner of unconditional love.
There is, however, a reason behind this. Both partners may carry within themselves a sense of inadequacy or unworthiness, leading them to choose an unconditional relationship rather than one that is clear, healthy, and grounded. They may simply not see themselves as deserving of a stable and meaningful relationship. This may stem, for instance, from their perception that their sexual energy is chaotic, toxic, or destructive, and that, in its present form, it is not something upon which a healthy relationship can be built, nor something that can be directed toward anything of genuine value.
The problem here is not simply that a person makes a mistake; human beings make mistakes, and everyone makes mistakes. There is no human being who never makes a mistake.
The real problem is falling and failing to rise.
Falling Is Not the End
There is a person who falls and then rises, and a person who falls and continues falling.
There are those who fall below their standards, then become aware and return, and there are those who continue falling until falling itself becomes their defining characteristic.
A person may awaken halfway through the journey, or may awaken after some time. Everyone has their own moment when they realize what has happened.
Therefore, a person should not allow a mistake to convince him that the mistake itself is his final destiny.
Satan wants to convince a person that once he makes a mistake, everything is over, and that there is no longer any meaning in returning. Then he pushes him deeper and deeper into the fall until he becomes unable to get out, transforming from a person who made a mistake into a participant in spreading it.
But as long as a person is still capable of getting out, he must get out.
If you are still capable of getting out of the drowning, this is the right time.
But if you continue drowning, you may reach a stage where you are no longer capable of getting out. At that point, you may become someone who punishes himself, punishes others, and punishes everyone who crosses his path.
Conclusion: Pay the Price and Move On
If you do not want to punish yourself any further, do not wrong yourself more than you already have.
Pay the price.
If the price is regret, then regret. If the price is repair, then repair. If the price is loss, then bear the loss. If what is required is to stop, then stop.
The important thing is not to continue the mistake, not to make your mistake a source of another mistake, and not to turn the poison that entered you into poison that you pass on to someone else.
Freedom is not about doing everything you are capable of doing; rather, it is knowing the consequences of what you do and choosing for yourself before you are forced to choose.
Wisdom is not about never making a mistake; that is impossible. Wisdom is recognizing when you make a mistake, stopping when you realize it, repairing what you can repair, and paying the price of the mistake instead of running away from it.
Because the person who considers consequences reduces their consequences, while the person who refuses to look at them consumes his freedom until the day comes when no room for movement remains.
Therefore, as long as you are capable of getting out of the drowning, get out now.
Do not wait until getting out becomes impossible.
A mistake can happen, and a fall can occur, but continuing to fall is what transforms a mistake into a destiny.
Pay the price, repair what you can, stop spreading what corrupted you, and then move on.
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