Abundance

One is of cursings, the other of blessings. One is fearful in the world, condemns it and knows God stands ready to destroy it, the other sees God and stands in the light of noon day. One hopes if they are faithful, they can escape the torment of the wicked around them as well as their own wickedness, in the other is cast away all fear. One stands stiff and immovable, the other moves with alacrity, adjudicating, bending, adjusting or standing firm. One casts off, the other gathers in. One is scarcity, hoarding, cold, faint and frail, kicking against the pricks and denying life the other is abundance, consumption, vitality, heat, energy, light and life. The one restrains, contains, defines and rejects. Seventy-two being the correct number of them. To another, ideas and beings are eternal. The one has not enough food, money or salvation to go around, in another there is abundance, fullness, always enough and to spare. One is false but believes itself true, the other is genuine and unfeigned. One approaches God in fear and trembling the other has perfect love. For one, the sabbath is holy, for another all days are holy. One prepares one for the other, nothing having changed, but the inner man.