God Arises
Review
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frustration would very likely cause him to repress
his initial impulses.
In other words, the wishes, suppressed in the
unconscious, are mostly such evil designs as could
not be realized for fear of punishment and/or social
ostracism. Now, if the subconscious part of the
mind of a mentally disturbed person begins to find
an outlet, what is likely to come gushing out of it?
Obviously the afflicted person will talk incoherently
while attempting to give expression to those same
hostile feelings and evil desires, which had
remained suppressed in his subconscious. And, if
we are to think of him as a prophet, it will be as a
prophet of evil, certainly not of good. Religious
thoughts expressed in prophetic diction are, by
comparison, virtue and purity par excellence. The
true prophet is, himself, the epitome of virtue and
his purity in thought, word and deed has no
parallel. His ideas, moreover, exercise such a
powerful influence upon people that the very
society from which, at one time, the prophet had
initially to conceal his ideas – out of fear – is now so
greatly attracted towards them, that even after a
