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On the Origin of the Twenty-First Century You're always talking about wars. Ie didn’t have anything se do ‘with wars. These people were outlaws. You don’s wage war against ‘outlaws, You exterminate chem. Outlaws! My boy, that was a marvelous time! Oh, it was so well done — so perfectly organized, so daringly carried our. You have to understand that the mass of people always play some- lone else's game... never their own ‘The spirit borrows from matter the perceptions it draws its imeat from, and gives chem back as movement stamped with its freedom. Elohim brought the living out of the Earth. The basic message ‘came across in Eden meaning volupruousness and delight. The Garden of Eden is the garden of earthly delights. To cultivate this garden is to take care of those delights. To look after the garden is to preserve and pass on che treasure received there. In this Eden all crees were given as a gift. Almost immediately thereafter came the first prohibition, che“No’, the “Not”. Under pain of death. Nothing conflices more with the image of the beloved than thac of the state. The state's rationale directly opposes the sovereign value of love. The state in no way possesses, or else it has lost, the power to embrace, before our eyes, the corality of the world, chat torality of the universe offered externally via the loved one as object, and incernally via the lover as subject. Since the body-soul pairing means each deforms the other, we must separate them to know them properly. The sociery makes the body seem something more than itis and he soul something less. But once separated, when the body returns to earth, and che soul is able to recurn co heaven, we see both in all their purity. “Jan't this perfect happiness?” “Come on, you have to admit it’s all preccy sad.” "But, my dear fellow, happiness isa’t enjoyable.”

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