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a frightful sight! I don't know what the priest was like, what his
character was, he could not be seen—you know, don't you, that
they are not seen. They are shut up in a box and receive the con-
fession through a grille. There was such a dark and sucking power
over him, and that poor woman was in such a state of fearful terror
that it was truly painful to see it. And all these people believe this
is something holy! But it is a web of the hostile vital forces which
use all this to feed upon. Besides, in the invisible world hardly any
beings love to be worshipped, except those of the vital. These, as
I said, are quite pleased by it. And then, it gives them importance.
They are puffed up with pride and feel very happy, and when they
can get a herd of people to worship them they are quite satisfied.
But if you take real divine beings, this is not at all something
they value. They do not like to be worshipped. No, it does not
give them any special pleasure at all! Don't think they are happy,
for they have no pride. It is because of pride that a man likes to
be worshipped; if a man has no pride he doesn't like to be wor-
shipped; and if, for instance, they see a good intention or a fine
feeling or a movement of unselfishness or enthusiasm, a joy, a
spiritual joy, these things have for them an infinitely greater value
than prayers and acts of worship and pujas....
CWM 6: 194-96 The Mother

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