[Redbook3:60-61][19870329:1210j](DEVELOPMENT
[continued(8)])[29th
March 1987]
19870329.1210(BST)
[continued]
The
Sufi is a different matter: although surrounded by acolytes and
superficialities, he was a powerful and intelligent man. He used
some techniques of projection which are known to un-religious people:
that does not stop them from being a legitimate part of a course of
inward development. On the whole, he struck me as being a
straightforward man. Sometimes, just once or twice, he surprised me
with comments that seemed to owe more to political than to spiritual
awareness.
The
primary factor in my decision to stop, was that when it came to the
point I could not adopt Islam (as he required – contrary to my
reading and understanding of Sufism) if it meant denial of
Christianity: which, after some agonising, I decided (rightly or
wrongly) that it did. This was difficult as I have believed for a
long time that the three Religions 'of the Book' can, ultimately,
become One. As the acolytes' written introduction said, only a form
of words was required: but if we are not truthful in the Spirit, we
are truthful in nothing; and in all the World there is nothing higher
than Truth.
[This
is also referred to earlier.]
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