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earth are guilty before you. Seek for self-affirmation. Seek for
self-affirmation
at any price! The right to this is granted you by the old God
Jehovah.
All the elements of this formula are repeated millions of times,
in every imag-
inable manner, in the form of the most varied supplements, and
seasoned withthe most varied sauces, over and over again in the
mass-media of the world.
And if there is someone who does not grasp that this formula is
worse than its
bloody prototype Workers of the world, unite! then we can only
gather
enough patience and courage, and wait until life itself will
make it quite obvi-
ous.
But this formula can also be challenged. As a response to it
something different
can be heard, something that is in accord with the real life of
our times. It is the
statement that speaks of social and historical understanding and
of the will to
solve, not to aggravate, the social problems:
Jews of the world, isolate yourselves no longer, no longer be
cocooned up in
your racial unity. Through living among other peoples, through
speaking their
languages, assimilating with their culture, you have received
the inestimable
gift of the autonomous personality, to which it is given to
ascend to unbounded
spiritual freedom. Treasure this gift. Treasure the cultures in
which you were
nurtured, make your contribution to their healthy development,
because theirdestiny is also yours. Outside these cultures you will
find no happiness, no
higher purpose of existence. Use the conditions of today that
have never been
so favourable for assimilation with the peoples in whose midst
you were born
and educated, and with whom in truth you already form a unity.
Lend all your
forces so that all peoples of the world may live in dignity. Be
happy in the
measure possible in the place where karma has placed you. Do not
carry the
arbitrary will of dark politicians into the realm where the
cosmic laws of the
eternal human spirit hold sway.
