OF WAR AND WARRIORS
" We like neither to be spared by our best enemies, nor by those whom we love from our heart of heart. Let me tell you the truth !
My brethren in war ! I love you from my heart's heart. I am and was your like. And, besides, I am your best enemy. Therefore let me tell you the truth !
I know the hatred and envy of your heart. Ye are not great enough not to know hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them !
And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, at least be its warriors. They are the companions and pio- neers of the saints' holiness.
I see many soldiers : would I could see many warriors ! ' Uniform ' they call what they wear : would it were not uniform what they hide under it !
Ye shall be like unto them whose eye is ever look- ing out for the enemy for your enemy. And with a few of you there is hatred at first sight.
Ye shall seek your own enemy, ye shall wage your own war, and for your own thoughts. And if your thought be conquered, your honesty shall shout vic- tory over it.
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