Remember that your puppet-strings are pulled by what is hidden within. This is the source of activity, this is the source of life, this—if it must be said—is man. Never confuse it with the flesh that surrounds it like a vessel or with your limbs and organs, for these are all “tools” which have been attached to you.21 They are like an axe or any other tool, the only difference being that they are permanently attached. These “tools” are of no more use without the cause which manipulates and restrains them than the loom without the weaver, the pen without the writer, or the whip without the
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