Dependency

[dar205]

"We have already mentioned the fact that the messianic-Galilean doctrine, in its original nature, did not aim to create a new form of social life or even of religion. It had a purely anarchist, antisocial, defeatist character, subversive of every rational order of things. A unique concern pervaded it, obsessively: the salvation of the soul of the

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[keith418]

"And when they realized that they could never exert the effort required to find their own wills as individuals, the pseudo-Thelemites passed to their socialistic aspect. The ecclesia, the community of the faithful, understood as an impersonal and mystic medium made out of reciprocal need -- need for love, need to serve, need to communicate, need for reciprocal confirmation, reciprocal dependence of lives insufficient to itself -- replaced in each soul the vanishing reality their own independence and personal sense of will."

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[dar205]

This is why people say you are mean, you keep being explicit which prevents people from hiding from the implications of what you are saying...

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[brendan831]

Zing!

[dictator88]

I didn't know that this had been translated into English. Though, shouldn't it be Pagan Imperialism?

[dar205]

The German edition from 1933 was titled "Heidnischer Imperialismus." That is the edition used for this translation (Thompkins & Cariou).