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Equations: Man is born with a soul which is part of the collective soul. Society is composed of the net of men’s unwilled actions. It is opposed to the soul. | Equations: Man is born with a soul which is part of the collective soul. Society is composed of the net of men’s unwilled actions. It is opposed to the soul. | ||
Each child enters the world with a pure soul (probably). (It is worse if they enter with souls already | Each child enters the world with a pure soul (probably). (It is worse if they enter with souls already partially destroyed by their parents.) | ||
Society attempts to destroy the soul in order to maintain its stability. The soul fights back. The war between the two is what we call the world which is the battleground between society and the universe (the collective soul—how inadequate are all these words. | Society attempts to destroy the soul in order to maintain its stability. The soul fights back. The war between the two is what we call the world which is the battleground between society and the universe (the collective soul—how inadequate are all these words). | ||
Through history up to now the soul of the savage which was all soul relinquished a part of its soul to enable man to battle against nature for until nature was conquered, at least in its inhospitable manifestations, man was doomed to remain an animal. | Through history up to now the soul of the savage, which was all-soul, relinquished a part of its soul to enable man to battle against nature for until nature was conquered, at least in its inhospitable manifestations, man was doomed to remain an animal. | ||
The movement of man to find his soul worked its drama upon society, for as society (which is the concretion of the collective surrender of man’s will) developed and altered men, removing them further and further from their souls, so did man fight back, occasionally altering society, the movement of his soul (with what endless waste) improving social structure. But usually losing his soul. | The movement of man to find his soul worked its drama upon society, for as society (which is the concretion of the collective surrender of man’s will) developed and altered men, removing them further and further from their souls, so did man fight back, occasionally altering society, the movement of his soul (with what endless waste) improving social structure. But usually losing his soul. | ||