Passage 9

In English

(demons) have another name in Samskrith - those who move about in the dark. This is a fair description of their pathetic condition. They have no light to guide them; they do not recognise that they are in the dark; they do not call out for light; they are unaware of the light. Their intellect has become the bondslave of their passions and their senses, instead of establishing itself as their master. When at last, truth appears before them and overwhelms them, they recognise the One and merge happily in it. The lamp is not merely the symbol of the knowledge to Truth. It is also the symbol of the One, the that shines in and through all this multiplicity. Just as with one lamp, a thousand lamps can be lit and the One is as bright as ever in spite of the thousands deriving light from it, so too, the (soul-spirit) illumines the (individual self) and shines in and through them, without undergoing any diminution in its splendour.