The Tiger's Fang by Paul Twitchell

Author:Paul Twitchell
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-57043-443-3
Publisher: Eckankar
Published: 2017-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

*See chapter 5 in Paul Twitchell’s The ECK-Vidya, Ancient Science of Prophecy for a more thorough and accurate explanation of man and woman as Soul. In the original Tiger’s Fang manuscript Paul speaks poetically of a Soul mate theory, but in the light of his greater understanding he later corrects this theory.

7

The Hideous God of Life

I used to think my viewpoints and attitudes on life were wrong for the very reason that everybody kept telling me something different. They wanted me to believe their way. Now I have come to see that many things I clung to were right, and this experience proved it so.

I was firmly entrenched in my ideals, in a certain knowledge that nobody else knows; and nothing could change my understanding. I had a realization of my own particular knowledge on God from childhood, and not even college nor all the conventions of society could change it.

The one thing I am certain of is that God is love, and love is God; and all the sweetness and light which the cults teach, as well as most philosophies and religions, is not right. Yet on the other hand God is hideous, forbidding, frightening, shocking, pretentious, garish, unprepossessing, ugly, plain, coarse, distorted, unbeautiful, and about any adjective one wants to use in describing that part of Him which is power.

However, He is splendor, radiant, resplendent, dazzling, glorious, and hundreds of other adjectives used to describe His beauty. How do I explain this? Did you ever see something beautiful that was hideous? Did you ever see something hideous that was beautiful? Of course you have. Look about you in this physical world; it can be found anywhere, at anytime.

I am now firmly convinced that cults, religions, and philosophies are only founded to convince the followers of the invincibility of the founders, e.g., Bergson, Hegel, Darwin, Nietzsche, Socrates, Freud, Bacon, and dozens of others who became the victims of too willing an audience who wanted to glorify them.

The saints and saviors fell into this unstable trap, not of themselves, but often after their earthly mission was over. Most leaders of society and religions can be said to be the instrument of banditry.

One must be the master or the slave. History will tell you that. Invent a good principle for your own good, or interpret one of God’s principles that can be used for self-advantage, and see where it will get you. All of a sudden you are the leader and no matter how rich you might be, some poor, starving Soul believes through self-ego that you need his last earthly coin.

The leader exists only because his followers allow him. He does not have to fleece his flock, but, after all, they expect a certain amount of it, and if he doesn’t, sooner or later they will leave him for somebody who does.

On the other hand, if he is too much of a disciplinarian, they will leave him anyway. He must strike a happy medium and give neither too much nor too little.

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