Chapter
5
Long
ago, but after the beginning, it was impossible for one human being
to strike another in anger. We knew ourselves to be the other. In
that state, killing was not going to happen. Something went wrong.
Marriage
is the name for a certain type of purchase of each party by the
other. In fact, all attempts to manufacture a feeling of belonging
are always going to be as a practical matter a sellout on both sides.
Every contract, sealed or otherwise, is born from mistrust. I
once heard a wise man tell it that from the point of view of a
Martian, for example, watching a Marine drill instructor discipline a
bunch of recruits it would be logical for the alien to think the
instructor who yells and threatens at the top of his lungs is begging
the others to please do what he wants of them. Everybody had been
bought. In another word: artificial life had been manufactured.
One
must see for himself that there are these illusory ties that we have
grown to serve to the point of death. The real ones, those given at
birth to all- the real ties -those ones demand we grow to serve love
and life and by so doing life and death are known to the obedient to
be one. Fear is absent. Peace reigns.
As
I see it, one thing is above all required to bring about a change of
sufficient passionate force that nothing and nobody can prevent the
arising of the longed-for realm of peace out of the ashes of a long,
long line of warring and that one thing is to know that the value of
the single life of the lowest, least worthy human being on Earth is
far, far greater than the total combined pseudo-national interests of
every flag waving citizen on Earth when considered through the eyes
of the innocent. Until this is clear, one is to remain a slave in a
darkness so great no amount of money and no armed force of the
greatest magnitude can save you or the ones you claim to love. On the
other hand, one glimpse into the heart of truth will set a man or
woman free forevermore. Only the innocent love. But, listen closely,
all people, all, at heart, remain innocent unto death.
In
innocence will we know it is so that a human being is made by the
same living force that set the Universe in motion and created it all.
While all nations, all states, all counties, all cities and all
marriages are the creation of man alone, writings on paper of mere
words forged in spiteful disregard of the Master Building Plan,
saying, in essence,
Thanks,
but we follow You not. We know better.
