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Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 97 )

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




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