This quote is taken from the second volume of From the Chronicles of Lupa.
It comes early in Chapter 15 ("The Fisher King") in which my hero must finally face and fight against The Abomination, with the inevitable temptation that comes with such confrontations: we are one, and the same, you should join with me...
I posted this quote for anyone who fancies themselves as a seeker on a spiritual path, the Way upon which things always masquerade as their opposite.
Gurus, especially, who profess to be Perfected in Love until they are found to be frauds who emotionally, financially and sexually exploit their followers... including the children, always the children... until their remorseless psychotic spiral ends in them being lynched or setting fire to the whole compound or pouring out the Kool-Aid.
Here is the full quote, with enough context to explain it:
"The beast sought an alliance with Jesse, a promise that would see them rise in victory over the world, subduing all temporal powers to a new spiritual kingdom. Replacing every corrupt power with Jesse’s own will to power, the better knowledge of justice that was within his superior soul.
Jesse felt himself drawn by this temptation, towards imposing what is good for people over what their own freedom would decide. Seeing what the monster sang to as Jesse’s Heart of Greatness, his Light far superior to the lesser light of liberty, going out to corral every person before their lives could go astray.
These temptations called to Jesse but he was not incited by them, at least not in his deep heart where the decision over these things lay. The compassion within Jesse was actual compassion, going out towards individual people and their simple needs, it was not the bloated imitation of love that goes out of broken souls to seek power over multitudes."
Strait is the Gate, as they say. Although if we could just decide for ourselves what actual love, actual compassion really looks like - and it isn't that hard - then even the most cunning of deceivers could never lead us astray.
P. Julian
10 August 2018
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