Vol. 2. / 183.) Of People Who Appear Similar

Of people who appear similar

The seemingly same, spiritually,

Are prey to a great and insidious evil

And a hurtful spiritual theft . . .

The two persons seem the same ---

They seem to speak ‘the same language’

But let one of them quickly lay eyes

Upon the beauty in the work of the other

That they themselves prize --- and in

An instant all-unconscious moment

The delusion arises that this perceived 
            Greater thing in the other, that one 
            Is seeing is diminishing one ---

(In some unrecognized, subtle way . . .)

At once a spontaneous spiritual

Thwarting of the other will possess one:

It hurts to find another ‘better’ than oneself

But, it hurts, too, even more --- to sense

And feel the theft --- though, of course

It’s all hid and suppressed, and overlooked

But proof: that the two similar persons

Are of two different spirits entirely:

Two forces which clash with one another

All the while applauding one another

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