BORROWINGS

The fact that certain recent civilizations have “borrowed” things from others that were more ancient; that they have elaborated on these; that they may have ruthlessly plagiarized them, is no reason for you to lament, for you to be mad at them. Nature spreads its infinite bounties in innumerably many ways: fire, flood, blood, wind, rain, snow, ice, hail, semen, excrement\; school, church, farm field, sea, earthquake, etc. No one need deprecate propitiation of the diverse gifts at all! “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” some may say. Indeed imitation is a most powerful form of flattery. Emulation is greater than mere imitation. For emulation is adulation, is preservation, is promulgation, ritualisation , consecration. Dispense, therefore with your unnecessary brooding, useless consternation , so that you may learn, relearn, the wisdom of the ages, from every source there is, was, may ever yet be. Amen.