Steven Karcher & Michael Servetus
Do not involve yourself in the Corruption of the Kings and the Lords. Honoring what is highest is your affair.
These are the people who work on in the darkness to prepare the new dawn. Leave your old thoughts behind and mingle with the new influence. Have no fear. Do not pause in your efforts to find the true meaning of these changes. These goings and comings will release the energy now bound up in the past. If you let yourself be led you can realize the hidden potential. Co-operate with the ongoing process of change.
Richard Wilhelm
He does not serve kings and princes,
Sets himself higher goals.
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Not every man has an obligation to mingle in the affairs of the world. There are some who are developed to such a degree that they are justified in letting the world go its own way and refusing to enter public life with a view to reforming it. But this does not imply a right to remain idle or to sit back and merely criticize. Such withdrawal is justified only when we strive to realize in ourselves the higher aims of mankind. For although the sage remains distant from the turmoil of daily life, he creates incomparable human values for the future.
