![]() It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. “A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it who gave is angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body who mouths justice, and invented hell-mouths mercy, and invented hell-mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!” And you are but a thought-a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!” It is all a dream-a grotesque and foolish dream. "It is true, that which I have revealed to you there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. The dream-marks are all present you should have recognized them earlier. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks-in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction! Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane-like all dreams: a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body who mouths justice and invented hell-mouths mercy and invented hell-mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell who mouths morals to other people and has none himself who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him! ![]() Strange! that you should not have suspected years ago-centuries, ages, eons, ago!-for you have existed, companionless, through all the eternities. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever-for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. I am perishing already, I am failing, I am passing away. In a moment you will have realized this, then you will banish me from your visions and I shall dissolve into the nothingness out of which you made me. I myself have no existence I am but a dream-your dream, a creature of your imagination. “You are not you-you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought.
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