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God Is The "mysterium Tremendum," That Appears And Overthrows, But He Is Also The Mystery Of The Self-evident, Nearer To Me Than My I.

The Concept Of Guilt Is Found Most Powerfully Developed Even In The Most Primitive Communal Forms Which We Know... The Man Is Guilty Who Violates One Of The Original Laws Which Dominate The Society And Which Are Mostly Derived From A Divine Founder; The Boy Who Is Accepted Into The Tribal Community And Learns Its Laws, Which Bind Him Thenceforth, Learns To Promise; This Promise Is Often Given Under The Sign Of Death, Which Is Symbolically Carried Out On The Boy, With A Symbolical Rebirth.

To Begin With Oneself But Not To End With Onself. To Start From Oneself But Not To Aim At Oneself.

A Story Must Be Told In Such A Way That It Constitutes Help In Itself. My Grandfather Was Lame. Once They Asked Him To Tell A Story About His Teacher. And He Related How The Holy Baal Shem Used To Hop And Dance While He Prayed. My Grandfather Rose As He Spoke, And He Was So Swept Away By His Story That He Himself Began To Hop And Dance To Show How The Master Had Done. From That Hour He Was Cured Of His Lameness. That's How To Tell A Story.

What Has To Be Given Up Is Not The I, As Most Mystics Suppose: This I Is Indispensable For Any Relationship, Including The Highest, Which Always Presupposes An I And You.