From 'I-Ching'Why do the words of a Mystic or a Sage so often arouse such severe antagonism? Take, for instance poems like the "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman. They have aroused storms of criticism as well as enthusiastic admiration. Yet, on the other hand, readers of all sorts generally are not trouble by the weird meanderings of the written words of an insane mind. This reveals the fact that it is not simply the unconventionality of the form that stirs the antagonism. Now these storms of criticism are really tributes. They indicate, at least, an unconscious recognition of Power in the words of the Mystic or Sage. The complacency of the forces of Mara - to employ a Buddhist term - has been struck a vital blow, and this arouses resistance. But in all such engagements, Mara is doomed to defeat, for the power that has burst forth is united with the inexhaustible Fount.
The only effective defense for Mara would be complete indifference. For if Mara causes any man to fight the Light, that man, sooner or later, is conquered by the Light and then becomes One with It. St Paul affords us the classic example. He fought earnestly and sincerely so that quickly the Light conquered him and claimed him for Its own. From the standpoint of Mara there is nothing more dangerous than an effort to slay a Sage or a Mystic. The latter, in Their real Natures are invulnerable and, in the end, win to themselves their would be slayers. FMW
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Simplicity - the root of the substance. The fundamental law underlying everything in the universe is utterly plain and simple, no matter how abstruse or complex some things may appear to be.
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