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Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 97 )

A huge locomotive has rushed on over the lineall is bound and no freedom is possible,
and a small worm that was creeping upon onebecause there is no intelligence. This
of the rails saved its life by crawling outfreedom that distinguishes us from mere
of the path of the locomotive. Yet thismachines is what we are all striving for. To
little worm, so insignificant that it can bebe more free is the goal of all our efforts,
crushed in a moment, is a living something,for only in perfect freedom can there be
while this locomotive,so huge,so immense,isperfection. This effort to attain freedom
only an engine, a machine. You say the oneunderlies all forms of worship,whether we
has life and the other is only dead matterknow  it  or  not.
and all its powers and strength and speed are
only those of a dead machine,a mechanicalIf we were to examine the various sorts of
contrivance. Yet the poor little worm whichworship all over the world, we would see that
moved upon the rail and which the least touchthe rudest of mankind are worshipping ghosts,
of the engine would have deprived of its lifedemons, and the spirits of their forefathers
is a majestic being compared to that huge-- serpent worship, worship of tribal
locomotive.gods,and worship of the departed ones. Why do
they do this? Because they feel that in some
It is a small part of the Infiniteunknown way these beings are greater,more
and,therefore, it is greater than thispowerful than themselves, and limit their
powerful engine. Why should that be so? Howfreedom. They,therefore,seek to propitiate
do we know the living from the dead? Thethese beings in order to prevent them from
machine mechanically performs all themolesting them, in other words,to get more
movements its maker made it to perform, itsfreedom. They also seek to win favor from
movements are not those of life. How can wethese superior beings, to get by gift of the
make the distinction between the living andgods what ought to be earned by personal
the dead,then? In the living there iseffort.
freedom,there is intelligence; in the dead



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