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Heart (1932) - 77:
77. There are many who become obsessed
during the transition of mankind to spiritual creativeness; as if someone
had duplicated the keys to loose locks. It is especially necessary to
study people cautiously. Moreover, it is necessary to remember that the
obsessed have a peculiar logic, full of contradictions. If one wants to
help them, one can, by the force of suggestion, drive out the one who is
in possession; or one can leave the person in peace, and even, if
possible, isolate him entirely. Because the entity which
obsesses a person is not so much in need of the person
himself, as of the influence exerted through him upon those who surround
him. The worst thing is partially to vex the obsessed person by demanding
from him the sane logic of which he is incapable. It is bad to begin to
pity aloud the one who is obsessed, or to condemn his contradictions. The
strong and striking command or isolation can ease the fate of a weak
heart, because through weakness of the heart obsession creeps in. The fire
of the heart singes all woolly visitors. |