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You could say that, yes, says the magician, resuming his<br />
speech. The spirit, the spiritual world, and the fact that man<br />
himself is magical and possesses spiritual powers will no longer<br />
be spoken about in that religion. Man will become a ‘sinful’<br />
being. From the pulpits it will be preached that man is inclined<br />
to all evil. The text the read at deathbeds and funerals also says<br />
quite a lot: ‘to dust thou shalt return’.<br />
And how do they view the crisis mechanism and the spiritual<br />
world? asks the advisor.<br />
That’s anyone’s guess, the magician answers. Not a word<br />
about the call to adventure. Diseases, suffering, and other<br />
calamities that can happen to a person in his life, they call a<br />
punishment from their god or just bad luck or fate. And not a<br />
word about the spiritual world. And if anything is said at all, it<br />
is miles away from how it really is. They will keep man away<br />
from it and make him fear it. They’ll say that there is a hell and<br />
go to war against all the mind-expanding tools that help people<br />
gain limited access to my magical spirit world. Do you know<br />
what they’re going to call these tools?<br />
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