“The eye is the lamp of the whole body. If your eye is pure, then your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, then your whole body will be full of darkness. And if the light that is in you is darkness, how terrible is this darkness!”
In these not quite clear words of Jesus there is a serious warning for people. Spiritual light in the consciousness of a person can turn into darkness. How can this happen? Darkness is evil, lies and vice, according to the teaching of Jesus. In the allegorical words of Jesus, a person’s eyes are his point of contact with the Universe, understanding of the world, perception and judgment of what surrounds him. The inner world of a person (body) is illuminated through his perception (eyes). If a person’s eyes (that is, his perception) are pure, positive and kind, then the light of God is perceived as it really is, and a person is filled with light, peace and joy from within.
If a person’s perception, “the eyes of his soul” suddenly deteriorates, is filled with suspicion, doubt and mistrust, and tends toward evil, then everything that a person sees, he interprets negatively. He interprets even God himself and the highest and purest moral values negatively! The light emanating from God penetrates the soul of a person, but somehow turns into the most terrible darkness. For example, the idea of love turns into something negative for a person and is seen as hidden egoism. Selflessness turns into a desire for glory. And so on. A person begins to think badly even about himself. Everything good becomes evil.
The most telling example of this was Judas Iscariot. He traveled for three years and listened to Jesus Christ, but at one point it seemed to him that Jesus’ teaching was not true and that Jesus himself was a deceiver or a madman. How could this happen? How can all moral guidelines be lost in one moment? How can seemingly pious people fall and commit unimaginable immoral acts in one moment? The answer probably lies in the inability to accept the light and become one with it deep in the soul. One can understand God and His light on an intellectual level, but not make real progress in acquiring spiritual character, not grow spiritually.
This also applies to those who voluntarily begin their path of faith: it happens that the human “I” rejects changes in its inner essence, the light is recognized as “alien”. Over time, a person plunges into darkness even thicker than it was before.
Here we can ask the question: Why? The man believed honestly, but could not change – so could not God help? Here we have to return to the parable of Jesus about the types of soil – dry, rocky or covered with weeds. A person sometimes cannot achieve spiritual growth due to the lack of opportunity. Because of this, the light sometimes turns into darkness. Should he be judged for this unpreparedness? How can one judge the soil for the state it is in? God does not judge the fact that the seed of faith died in an unprepared soul because of unsuitable soil. God does not judge the “I” of a person for what it is as a result of accidents. But much is determined by actions: for example, Judas could have simply quietly left, but instead he committed betrayal when it was not necessary. We can certainly hope for justice, that God gives a second chance to those whose light went out in their souls because of bad “soil”. Maybe in another world.
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