The Madman and the Church
Wolfgang Doelz
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*Surrender* is the greatest gamble.
Surrender means putting aside the mind completely.
Surrender means going mad.
I say "surrender means going mad",
because all those who live in their logic and in their minds
will think you have gone mad.
To me, it is not madness.
To me, *madness*, this type of madness,
is the only courageous way of life.
To me, this madness is the deepest jump.
To me, this madness is all that a man is called to be.
But to the logicians, your *trust* will look like madness.
This is one of the phenomena that has to be penetrated very deeply.
All the great religions are born around some madman.
A *Jesus* is a madman, perfectly insane.
A *Buddha* is a madman!
But the people who gather around are not all mad.
Many come who are no *peakers*, [Terminus nach A. Maslow,
who are *intellectuals*. von: *peak experience*]
They are attracted to Jesus and to Buddha also.
The very being of Buddha is so magnetic now,
filled with so much infinite energy,
that they are attracted.
And their mind reasons that something has been attained by this man.
But they are not peakers; they are non-peakers.
*Intellectually* they become attracted.
The very phenomenon of a Buddha and his being
becomes a logical argument to them.
They listen to Buddha,
they rationalize his sayings,
they create metaphysics around them -
mm? - then a *religion* is born.
At the *base* is a *madman*,
but in the *structure* are *logicians*.
They are the contradictory people,
absolute contradictory, opposite to Buddha.
They create the organization.
They create Buddhism and the philosophies.
*Jesus* is a madman,
*Saint Paul* is not.
He is a perfect logician.
The church is created by Saint Paul, not by Jesus.
The whole of Christianity is created by Saint Paul, not by Jesus.
And this is one of the dangerous things that has been happening.
And there is no way to prevent it.
It is in the nature of things.
If Jesus is born now,
the church will deny him immediately.
The church will not allow any madmen.
*Eckhart* or *Böhme*,
the church will deny them - they are madmen.
They will be expelled from the organization.
They will not be allowed
because they can prove destructive.
They say such things,
that if people listen to them and believe in them,
they will destroy the whole structure, the whole organization.
Religion is born, at the base, with a madman,
and then taken over by the logicians
who are the opposite.
And they create all organizations.
*Peakers* give birth,
and then the child is adopted by the *non-peakers*.
So every religion at its birth source is beautiful -
but never again.
Then it becomes ugly.
Then, really, it becomes anti-religious.
Whatsoever I am saying to you,
you are fortunate -
it is just at the source.
That's why I say you are fortunate.
And it happens only after thousands of years
that you are near the source.
It will not be so again!
Even with my ideas, it will not be so again.
Sooner or later, the logician will enter,
the non-peaker will come.
They are bound to come -
they are already on the way.
They will systematize everything.
And then the opportunity will be missed.
Then it will be a dead thing.
Right now, it is alive,
and you are near the source.
That's why I say you are fortunate.
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