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Human Bondage
“Perhaps my single greatest disappointment in most of the world’s religions is that they succeeded, against all odds, in making most people afraid of God!…
A man without his feminine soul is easily described. His personality will move toward the outer world of things, and his head will be his control tower. He will build, explain, use, fix, manipulate, legislate, order and play with whatever he bothers to touch, but he will not really touch it at all — for he does not know the inside of things. He has no subtlety, imagination, ability to harmonize, or live with paradox or mystery. He engineers reality instead of living it. In fact, he is afraid of real life, and that is why the control tower of reason and pseudo control works overtime. It is the only way he can give himself a sense of security and significance. He is trapped in part of the picture, which is dangerous precisely because he thinks it is the whole picture…
Until males and cooperating females recognize this unwholeness, this anti-Incarnationalism posing as reality, we have no hope of loving or knowing God….
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The spiritual man in mythology, in literature and in the great world religions has an excess of life, he knows he has it, makes no apology for it, and finally recognizes that he does not even need to protect or guard it. It is not for him. It is for others. His life is not…
