what I am saying! It’s as if dust had got into someone’s eye, earth got into it, injured the eye, and the eye could not see the light. The injured eye was anointed; it had been injured by earth, and yet earth is put into it for healing. After all, all ointments and medicines have earth as their source. You were blinded by dust, you are healed by dust; so flesh blinded you; flesh heals you. The soul, you see, had become fleshly-minded by giving its consent to fleshly-minded inclinations, and that