2003.04.07 .
know to learn the holiness from the teacher and not from himself , because if the teacher is not saint , he cannot share holiness and he cannot make the man holy .
Oh , My people , there was a man in a citadel who said to himself : “ I will become holy ,” and after a little while he said : “ I am holy .” The days were passing , as they also have passed by that time , and he was wondering and saying : “ What use is it that I have become a saint ? Nobody knows about me and I do not find that I am useful .” Then he went to a man in his citadel and said to him : “ I am holy .” And that one replied : “ I cannot be sure that you are holy .” “ You know it because I have just told you ,” he replied . But the man did not believe him . Then he went to an old lady and he told her : “ I went to some citizen and I told him that I would become a holy man . And then I became a holy man and he did not believe me .” And the old woman said to him : “ He does not believe you and he cannot believe you .” “ But I told him this ,” he said to the old woman . “ It is not enough that you have told him ,” she said , “ you have to prove this to him .” Then he went further to another citizen from the citadel and he told him that the people do not believe him that he is a holy man . Then , that man said to him : “ The people do not believe you because the holy people stay with the holy people , and they receive holiness from them .” “ But where shall I find any holy people ?” he asked the citizen he was speaking with . And that citizen told him where he had to go to find holy people .
And going further , before getting into their midst , God spoke to those who were guiding the saints : “ Today one holy man will come to you and you should welcome him bowing and speaking to him : Welcome , holy man !” The guide spoke this to the disciples and they did so when the man arrived there .
Then going back into his citadel , no one received him as a holy man , and he was asking himself saying : “ What else shall I do ? What use is it to me that I am a holy man ? No one knows me .” And he told those in the citadel : “ I went to the holy men and they welcomed me as a saint and you say nothing and do nothing before me .” They did not say anything and wondered and kept being silent . However , He came back again to the saints and spoke to them : “ You have welcomed me as a saint and you knew that I was a saint man , but those in my citadel did not believe me even if I told them that you welcomed me .” But they also did not say anything more to him and bowing to him they said : “ Go in peace , holy man .” And he went away into his citadel and he was sorry in his mind that he has become a saint and that he saw no use of this . It was not long until the guide of the saints came to his house . Even while he was at the margin of the citadel , all the citizens were coming closer to him to receive teaching from him , and for him to heal them , to help them and to strengthen them within their things . This is how he has arrived to the house of the one he was looking for , and coming into the house , all were waiting for his coming back and then to see him off , and they did so .
And the man who called himself a saint spoke to the people : “ Do you see how this holy man came to me to advise you to believe what I have told you about myself ? However , you have not wanted to believe otherwise .” But the citizens were looking at him the same way and not otherwise . Then he said to himself : “ When the holy man will come again to me I will go with him to the end of the citadel to see what will happen then at my coming back home .” And he did so , as he said , but when he came back alone at his home , no one of the citadel followed him as the great multitude followed the other saint on his coming and on his going .
Then he got up and thinking at all of these things he went to ask the saints about his wonder . And arriving at them , he spoke to them about everything it was going on in his mind
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