Book1:TeDream-Maker
hem.Deahemallthetime.Asamatteroffact,whydoakethempearldivihesedays,Deanna?Thenyoutwoseethekeisfullofoysters,thoughnotallthepearlsareasperfectlyshapedastheonesshecollects.” Thatbeingthecase,ElinaandhankedDeannaandacceptedtheirpresentsgraciously.Theysippedtheirteaappreciatively,andafterawhileElinaturoherhostessandasked, "Iheardyoutalkingaboutliberatingthebodyfromthetrolofthemind.That’saveryiingidea.Howdidyoueveretothinkofit?"Lotuswassilentforamoment,foritwastooplicatedaquestiontoanswerinafewwords.Thenshesaid, "Wederstandthemovementsofthebodyaredirectedandtrolledbythebrain.Butiy,man’sbehaviorislikeapuppetonastring,trolledbythought,whiturnismaniputedbyinvisibleanduableideas.Butwhatistheforcethattrolsthestring?ThatiswhatImeanbysacredideas.Theseideasaredifferentfromtheunsciousstate,whichislikeano.Alotoffishesswimhereandthereinitswaters,justasthoughtsflitthroughman’smind,fused,disorderlyandtherebyuseless.TheideaI’malludingto,trolthoughtandatcertaintimesmakeyoudocertainthings.Man’sliferunslikeaclock,pre-wounda.Itisasaccurateandorderlyastherotationoftheheavenlybodiesonitsorbit.”Realizingthatheraudienceseemedlostandweren’tquitefollowingher,Lotuspausedtanizeherexpnations. "Let’sputitthisway.Thegravitationofthemoolyinfluehemandeveningtides.Italsoaffectshalfthepoputionoftheworldasittrolswomerualperiodbyitsfullnessandwaning.Soifthemoonbeassociatedwiththephysicalstateofmankind,whyisitsoinceivablethattheotherpsalsoinfluen’sthoughts?ThatiswhatImeanbysacredideas.” "T