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The Salvation Of Man Does Not Lie In His Holding Himself Far Removed From The Worldly, But In Consecrating It To Holy, To Divine Meaning.

I Have Learned A New Form Of Service From The Wars Of Frederick, King Of Prussia. It Is Not Necessary To Approach The Enemy In Order To Attack Him. In Fleeing From Him, It Is Possible To Circumvent Him As He Advances And Fall On Him From The Rear And Force Him To Surrender. What Is Needed Is Not To Strike Straight At Evil But To Withdraw To The Sources Of Divine Power, And From There To Circle Around Evil, Bend It And Transform It Into Its Opposite.

Religion Means Goal And Way, Politics Implies End And Means. The Political End Is Recognizable By The Fact That It May Be Attained--in Success--and Its Attainment Is Historically Recorded. The Religious Goal Remains, Even In Man's Highest Experiences, That Which Simply Provides Direction On The Mortal Way; It Never Enters Into Historical Consummation.

Here Is The Infallible Test. Imagine Yourself In A Situation Where You Are Alone, Wholly Alone On Earth, And You Are Offered One Of The Two, Books Or Men. I Often Hear Men Prizing Their Solitude But That Is Only Because There Are Still Men Somewhere On Earth Even Though In The Far Distance. I Knew Nothing Of Books When I Came Forth From The Womb Of My Mother, And I Shall Die Without Books, With Another Human Hand In My Own. I Do, Indeed, Close My Door At Times And Surrender Myself To A Book, But Only Because I Can Open The Door Again And See A Human Being Looking At Me.

No Purpose Intervenes Between I And You, No Greed And No Anticipation; And Longing Itself Is Changed As It Plunges From The Dream Into Appearance. Every Means Is An Obstacle. Only Where All Means Have Disintegrated Encounters Occur.