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 | | From: | Dust | | Subject: | Re: Happy New Year | | Date: | Wed, 4 Jan 2005 19:48:16 GMT |
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 | 's hell to
contend with.
The simple act of asking a woman out, just to talk, to get to know her,
means that you have accepted falsity and inadequacy and rejected Truth.
It means you have accepted the word of the ego over the word of God. For
if Truth still occupies one's mind, even just a bit, then one would
still have some hope for God and would not seek to go into cohorts with
the ego, the Devil, in the form of woman and love.
I am at a definite advantage here, because it is usually left to the man
to make the decisive steps in a relationship. A woman will encourage and
entice, but will not make steps. Thus it is the man who must debase
himself and put himself at a loss. For woman encourages evil, but will
not create it - she leaves this to man. But to create evil is no small
thing, not entirely unconscious, and man can more easily choose against
it. Thus I choose against it - promoting my own failure.
I am also in a bind because women love my inner strength - but my
strength comes from my wisdom. If I loved women I would lose the very
thing they loved, and would become unlovable.
Time and again my ego itself stops itself from being satisfied,
promoting its own downfall still further. It is too proud in its
knowledge to compete with other men for the affection of a woman, or to
risk rejection by a woman. So if she has, in the past, loved men whom I
regard to be inferior to myself, then I cannot believe she is qualified
to appreciate me. Thus, not only does she fail to flatter me, but she is
also more than likely to reject me, which my pride cannot tolerate.
Similarly, if I suspect s
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