The Letter Killeth Part 8Beyond Common Sense
You are like a Las Vegas loser trying to recoup his losses, only to lose more of what he has left. Like the gambler in his hope of gain, you have been seduced and have lost a piece of yourself to the seducer. In trying to get your own back, you give yourself to the system which corrupted you in the first place, losing more and more of yourself in the process.
There are actually two parts to this riddle. The first one is your (true) identity which you have lost through being separated from your true ground of being. Another identity has taken up residence in its place. An inner relationship has been lost and replaced with an outer connection to a presence or circumstance. That false nature in you is what seeks to complete itself through externally experiencing the presence of its origin. Pride, in its search for security of all kinds, is what attracts us to all the wrong types of people; it is the reason why we teach others to be wrong, to serve this sick egocentric need.
There is an unspoken, universal conspiracy to keep men from finding their way back from whence they have fallen. We are all encouraged to identify with the seducers and corruptors who have become our leaders. Common sense is the other life beckoning us home. Common sense leads us back to the source of wisdom and to profound changes in character, mind and body.
You will begin your journey with low-level, basic, common-sense applications, assailed by much doubt and discomfort, but eventually you will arrive at greater Faith and deeper levels of meaning.
