The Tradition Of The Camp Fire Faces

The Atheist Staring From His Attic Window Is Often Nearer To God Than The Believer Caught Up In His Own False Image Of God.

Man Wishes To Be Confirmed In His Being By Man, And Wishes To Have A Presence In The Being Of The Other…. Secretly And Bashfully He Watches For A Yes Which Allows Him To Be And Which Can Come To Him Only From One Human Person To Another.

I Have To Tell It Again And Again: I Have No Doctrine. I Only Point Out Something. I Point Out Reality, I Point Out Something In Reality Which Has Not Or Too Little Been Seen. I Take Him Who Listens To Me At His Hand And Lead Him To The Window. I Push Open The Window And Point Outside. I Have No Doctrine, I Carry On A Dialogue.

What Is It That Is Eternal: The Primal Phenomenon, Present In The Here And Now, Of What We Call Revelation? It Is Man's Emerging From The Moment Of The Supreme Encounter, Being No Longer The Same As He Was When Entering Into It.

To Him Who Knows How To Read The Legend, It Conveys More Truth Than The Chronicle.