Man is a tool-user by nature. Therefore he is always prone to possession by the thing-making mind, that makes of living substance dead things of use to him. He uses images and ideas to make tools and weapons and machines, to gain power-over, to convert life to dead things. And so he walks a narrow road between life-giving and death-dealing, always a threat to the living world, the ultimate killer. And he is so thoughtless of his power to convert life to death, because it is part of his nature.
Man! Know thyself! as the evil being that you are, the ultimate killer who stalks Life itself, so that what is life-giving in you, of Eros, may keep the death-dealer in check. It is a hard thing to know, one's evil nature, but it is the only source of hope, for us, for Life.
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