Anni - The Perfect Wisdom Web

a f i x e d p o i n tdetermined this way for me quite personally. It reallywas an encounter with another world.It’s not easy for me to write about what I can barelyexpress with words. But I wanted to attempt it in orderto show you as clearly as possible how compelling allof this has become for me, and also that neither appealsto youthful immaturity, nor criticism of my reasoning,nor human obligations and ties can reverse this decision.It has nothing to do with my personal happiness, withmy inner peace in the fulfillment of my aims and wishes,or with the well-being of my soul. It is, therefore, nota matter of what is easier or more difficult for me; mysole concern is to do only what is in keeping with thisdecision. I was never under the illusion that I had chosenthe more difficult way –I don’t think I could have beenso arrogant as to believe that. I only believe that I mustcompletely and wholeheartedly do what this new waydemands of me and of everyone else to whom it has beenrevealed.And now you will again ask why I can’t do thisin Keilhau among you there. And why I can’t put my“Christianity of deeds and the gospel of love” into practicethere? I must reply that it is not just a matter of simplydoing, loving, and helping, as I had formerly imagined itto be. Rather, it is a matter of an active Christianity oflove and service in the name of Christ that can only occurin the sense of a renewal and rebirth of the old man. Thatmeans it cannot occur where there is discord, where it isconsidered acceptable to apply violence against violenceand hate against hate. It cannot occur in a socially unjust155