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                              %POWERS OF ALIENATION 761021

     The  powers  of  alienation appear  to  idolaters  as
agents   of  good  and/or  evil;   depending  upon   which
appearance  will  maximize  indifference  and  alienation.
Idolaters  realize (make real)  the powers  of  alienation
according to their expectations.  They see living embodied
devils if  they expect to see evil incarnate.   The "good"
people they know---through arrogance and hypocrisy promote
alienation.  The "evil" people they know---through lack of
respect and violence  promote alienation.   The powers  of
alienation  work  equally well through "good"  people  and
"evil"  people.   Those who value the distinctions between
good and evil are unaware of the futility of making  those
distinctions,  and unaware of the  alienations promoted by
making those distinctions.

     People who expect the powers of alienations to  exist
only as abstractions realize them as abstractions. Through
rational   analysis  and  intellectual  intercourse   they
realize the reality of original sin, and deal with it at a
very  high  level of abstraction.   They  are  unaware  of
alienation   as  an  existential  reality,   and  do   not
personally  know  the process of excommunication as it  is
experienced in real lives.

     Those  who  worship  no created  thing  perceive  the
powers of alienation for what they are, and transcend them
with   love   which  promotes   openness,    unconditional
communication  and  concern.   Only unconditional love can
transcend the powers  of  alienation.    Conformity to any
systematic program for success is  surrender to the powers
of  alienation,   even  when  conformity  is  designed  to
overcome   alienation.    Thus  there  is  no  system  for
overcoming  alienation.   Love is not  systematic.    Love
participates in ambiguity  and  contradictory  situations.
Love does  not value  either  logic or emotion/perceptions
exclusively.   Love seeks to promote integrity by bringing
together those whose fulfillment is to be found  together.
Love has reason which transcends  systematic logic and  so
transcends the powers of alienation.

                                                                                                                               
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