The Spirit Cheats Us

There must be some fearful, hostile force which is lying in wait for us and trips us up when we think of great success. And this is a huge, powerful, ultimately hostile force to resist or even come to terms with. It takes the form of looking for all kinds of conspiracies in history. For example, people begin to think that perhaps history is formed by forces over which we have no control. Perhaps the jesuits, perhaps the jews, perhaps the freemasons. This also is the romantic idea. Once you get the notion that there is outside a something larger, something unseizable, something unattainable,. You either have feelings towards it of love, as f