[it Is B]etter To Die

Freedom Is A Need Of The Soul, And Nothing Else. It Is In Striving Toward God That The Soul Strives Continually After A Condition Of Freedom. God Alone Is The Inciter And Guarantor Of Freedom. He Is The Only Guarantor. External Freedom Is Only An Aspect Of Interior Freedom. Political Freedom, As The Western World Has Known It, Is Only A Political Reading Of The Bible. Religion And Freedom Are Indivisible. Without Freedom The Soul Dies. Without The Soul There Is No Justification For Freedom. Necessity Is The Only Ultimate Justification Known To The Mind.

When You Understand What You See, You Will No Longer Be Children. You Will Know That Life Is Pain, That Each Of Us Hangs Always Upon The Cross Of Himself. And When You Know That This Is True Of Every Man, Woman And Child On Earth, You Will Be Wiser.

Experience Had Taught Me That Innocence Seldom Utters Outraged Shrikes. Guilt Does. Innocence Is A Mighty Shield, And The Man Or Woman Covered By It, Is Much More Likely To Answer Calmly: 'my Life Is Blameless. Look Into It, If You Like, For You Will Find Nothing.' That Is The Tone Of Innocence.

... My Century.. Is Unique In The History Of Men For Two Reasons. It Is The First Century Since Life Began When A Decisive Part Of The Most Articulate Section Of Mankind Has Not Merely Ceased To Believe In God, But Has Deliberately Rejected God. And It Is The Century In Which This Religious Rejection Has Taken A Specifically Political Form.

Crime, Violence, Infamy Are Not Tragedy. Tragedy Occurs When A Human Soul Awakes And Seeks, In Suffering And Pain, To Free Itself From Crime, Violence, Infamy, Even At The Cost Of Life. The Struggle Is The Tragedy - Not Defeat Or Death. That Is Why The Spectacle Of Tragedy Has Always Filled Men, Not With Despair, But With A Sense Of Hope And Exaltation.