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of power, force, warlike energy is so terrible that what they bring
down is indeed a little dangerous for those who worship it. I have
heard innumerable stories since my coming to India. I have been
put in touch with innumerable images and have known many peo-
ple who had in their homes a Kali they worshipped and to whom,
sometimes, quite dreadful things had happened. I always put
them on their guard, I told them, "Don't think at all that Mahakali
is responsible for your misfortunes, for she is not responsible for
them. But it is likely that the Kali you have in your home must
be harbouring some vindictive being, probably one very jealous,
extremely wilful and with a very strong spirit of vengeance, and
as you have faith and as it is generally a vital power, there may be
truly dangerous consequences." I have known people who, after
having had all kinds of unfortunate experiences, have taken the
statue of Mahakali and thrown it into the Ganges. If at the same
time they could acquire a certain freedom of spirit, all the damage
would disappear, but some of them are so frightened of what they
have done that the bad effects continue.
CWM 4: 395-97

Gods, goddesses and temples
In all religious monuments, in monuments considered the
most... well, as belonging to the highest religion, whether in France
or any other country or Japan — it was never the same temples or
churches nor the same gods, and yet my experience was every-
where almost the same, with very small differences — I saw that
whatever concentrated force there was in the church depended
exclusively upon the faithful, the faith of the devotees. And there
was still a difference between the force as it really was and the
force as they felt it. For instance, I saw in one of the most beautiful
cathedrals of France, which, from the artistic point of view, is one
of the most magnificent monuments imaginable — in the most
sacred spot I saw an enormous black, vital spider which had made

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