Questions and Meditations

13 The degrees of Unity

Are we not all, each of us human beings, tools and instruments of this adversary – to varying degrees, more or less apparent, more or less wittingly, with more or less consequence?

Is this not also one of the secrets of unity?

For indeed, if we look within ourselves, to the root of our motivations, desires, self-serving defenses, impulses and reasonings, if we look unwaveringly with the will and aspiration to see what is actually there, do we not find the same negation, the same dizzying attraction for the shadow and its intensities? And it is thus that, once we accept to see, we touch upon the lever of a great change = this is why the adversary requires a humanity which remains as averaged, conditioned and self-obsessed as possible, simply because any awakened being slips from its grip. Those who deliberately manipulate applied technologies in order to control the greatest number, who install deep in the web the active octopus of the ever more complex and fascinating sites of perversion, those who utilize the experimental sciences so as to perfect the mastery – at least temporarily – of genetic, molecular and atomic processes, those who ensconce themselves intimately crouching in wait in the weft of financial nets, or those who bargain their inventiveness to the highest bidders without a care for the consequences, are sensibly more responsible than most of us. But this solidarity of the dark, this coalition of the guts and the fear, holds all of us in its fist, so long as we each fail to do our work of offering, so long as we do not take a stand, so long as we do not chose not to lie, not to yield, not to betray any more. *

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