From "The Complete Jesus" by Ricky Alan Mayotte
[81-1] Therefore it is necessary for us to speak to you, since this is the doctrine for the perfect. If, now, you desire to become perfect you shall observe these things; if not, your name is 'Ignorant,' since it is impossible for a wise man to dwell with a fool, for the wise man is perfect in all wisdom. To the fool, however, the good and bad are the same--for 'the wise man will be nourished by the truth' and 'will be like a tree growing by the meandering stream'--seeing that there are some who, although having wings, rush upon the visible things, things that are far from the truth. For that which guides them, the fire, will give them an illusion of truth, and will shine on them with a perishable beauty, and it will imprison them in a dark sweetness and captivate them with fragrant pleasure. And it will blind them with insatiable lust and burn their souls and become for them like a stake in their heart which they can never dislodge. And like a bit in the mouth it leads them according to its own desire. It has fettered them with its chains and bound all their limbs with the bitter bond of lust for those visible things that will decay and change and swerve by impulse. They have always been attracted downwards: as they are killed, they are assimilated to all the beasts of the perishable realm.
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