These teachers, who enjoin the highest morality ('self-restraint, generosity, and mercy' are God's commandments in _Brihad [=A]ran_.

5.

2) refuse to be satisfied with virtue's reward, and, being able to obtain heaven, 'seek for something beyond.' And this they do not from mere pessimism, but from a conviction that they will find a joy greater than that of heaven, and more enduring, in that world where is "the light beyond the darkness" (_Cvet_.3.

8); "where shines neither sun, moon, stars, lightning, nor fire, but all shines after Him that shines alone, and through His light the universe is lighted" (_Mund_.2.2.

10).