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INDEX

HART to HEART
2
AUDITORIAL -- Beliefs Travel a Way
3
Paved with Unproved Ideas

PARTY LINE -- Gems Scissored from
4
Other Magazines

BREAKING THE BONDS OF MAN-GOD AND
5
DEVIL -- George T. Crawford

OBVIOUS CONCLUSIONS IGNORED OR DE 6
NIED -- George W. Lagus

A LEADER WORKS TO PROTECT OTHERS
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-- James W. Welgos

STAR DUST
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-- Sylvia Delong

MYSTERY SYMBOLS SAVED TAROT FROM
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PAPAL GOONS -- Hilton Hotema

ORACLE OF DREAMS -- Lowana
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BOOK REVIEWS
13
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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COVER -- Pretzels of Progress

POLICY: Don't take it so damn' seriously. The infinite
ness of Man is not reduced to a "split infinity"

by wars, taxes, or"experts" who seek to sell

him what he already has in an infinite amount.

SUB-POLICY: We reserve the right to change our minds
from issue to issue, or even from page to page,
if we desire.

SUB-SUB-POLICY: Each Man has the inherent right to be
his own and only"Authority"
SUB-SUB-SUB-POLICY -- We have no objection to "educated
guesses" about Mac's destiny -- if there's no
price tag to it, and if the guesser has no objection to our guessing he's only guessing.

BELIEFS TRAVEL THIS MAY BE no place for a
WAY PAVED WITH book review, but we were so
UNPROVED IDEAS impressed with the theme of a
paper-back volume sent us by
friends that we feel called upon to use this
space for comment and endorsement. Anyhow, the
findings of the chief character leave us reluctant to advise, criticise, or pretend a
wisdom we certainly do not feel.

The book is "Siddhartha", an English translation from the Swiss pen of Hermann Hesse,
published a decade or more ago. To us, it
points up a need for more writings that tell a
story, and craftily implant their propaganda --
which is the system Christianity has used for
centuries to get its fables accepted even by
those who profess to be most learned. People
like stories, with characters they can endow
with life. Even persons who deny, with all the
vehemence they possess, that there is any truth
in the Bible are unable to erase entirely their
pictorialized acceptance of the birth of Jesus
in a manger; his walking on tossing water as
Peter pleaded to be saved from sinking; and
the trial before Pilate preceding the crucifixion. Altho the teachings of Jesus are the most
beautiful part of the New Testament, take away
the picture stories and see what would happen
to Christianity. Even Jesus taught in parables
so that his audience could visualize the lessons.

COMPARE this with most mystical books of today in which someone thinks he has an idea
and proceeds to wax long and bookish, embellishing his tomes with unpronouncable words
and manufactured terms that confuse even the
most persevering student. To the credit of L.
Ron Hubbard, it must be said that this ex-fiction writer was able to inject enough mental
pictures in his book on Dianetics to arouse
the interest of those who could read, and, more
important, understand. Those fortunate enough
to hear a Hubbard lecture during these early
days were treated to the pictures of a fertile
imagination, and held spellbound, if not convinced. It is regrettable that this ex-maestro
of the pictured lesson has reverted to the academic style of those he once professed to
disparage.

But back to "Siddhartha". The hero of this
tale, son of an Indian Brahmin, becomes an
ascetic, and as such, subjects his body to all
the personal indignities typical of those who
seek to rise above Self. He meets the Buddha,
but declines the yellow robe when he perceives
that the life of a seeker is just that -- the
life of one who must always be a seeker, never
a finder. After a sojourn with a courtesan,
during which he becomes a wealthy gambler, he
gives it all up to operate a one-man ferry --
and to the realization that knowledge is not
communicable. And with that discovery, all of
his findings are epitomized by one great perception: One gains by what he learns from his
experiences, not what others tell him.

WHAT ONE experiences, he knows; what he accepts from others' writings or speakings he
can only believe -- he can never own. Yet many
dedicated "seekers" who, like Siddhartha's
companion, are satisfied to spend a lifetime
carefully avoiding what they profess to seek,
have made themselves slaves of their pursuit.
The chase itself is their goal, because they
do not know what they are after. Like the virgins who went to the wedding without oil in
their lamps, these seekers carry not even a
match to light the oil. They are satisfied to
be lamp-bearers, to stumble along in the light
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