No man ever turns against another in truth. In the uttermost depths of their heart, the divine whispers to them. It says: he is like you, this man you hate. He holds the divine within him as well.
Yet it is true that n do contend with each other in life, and that in so doing they are consud by anger and by hatred. That hatred is not for their adversary, though. It is for the man their adversary shows them to be.
How righteous would I be, n say, were I allowed to walk my path as I should! I should serve nothing but virtue to my neighbor, love to my family and kindness to the stranger. How righteous would I be, save for this man who vexes with challenge, who forces down a path of conflict!
And so might all n, it is true. But struggle does not degrade man. Its purpose is rather to reveal man. Cruelty and hatred do not appear in hardship save that they lurked unseen in better tis. Were virtue, love and kindness ever there, they would be still.
- The Book of Eight Verses, the Verse of Truth. (New Kheman Edition, 542 PD)
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