If all the millions of Facebook users approached me all together with the greatest receptivity and said: "What do you want us to do? Do you want us to do as you do?"--I would be obliged to answer: "No, there is not one single person alive who shares my task, and, in my opinion, not one person among these millions shares a task with another". And precisely this is what I must proclaim. As a rule all proclamation aims at collecting people; mine aims at dispersing them, making them single individuals. My task is this: myself an individuality and keeping myself that (and in infinite love God in heaven keeps an eye on this), to proclaim what boundless reality every man has in himself when before God he wills to become himself. But consequently I do not have a stitch of doctrine--and doctrine is what people want. Because doctrine is the indolence of aping and mimicking for the learner, and doctrine is the way to sensate power for the teacher, for doctrine collects men. The proclamation of individuality is: blessedly compensated within oneself--to be sacrificed to men. In the strictest sense my proclamation is a service of the spirit. Man is still an animal-creature, and the indolent inclination to ape and mimic seems to be his second nature. That is why it is so very easy to collect them in a herd; that proclaimer will get thousands who want to learn what he says by rote, perhaps become professors of it. But are not the proclaimers all too frequently to blame when the whole thing becomes aping and copying, for it is to their earthly and temporal advantage. What a tragedy, these thousands and thousands--every single one could grasp the highest, acquire the infinite worth that is his--but all goes to waste, and everything is also done by the politicians and their like to transform them into specimens.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:35:50 +0000
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