Excerpt from The Religious State

A certain traveler came one evening to the entrance of a vast forest. The sun was just setting, but yet he could neither tarry nor retrace his steps. He was obliged to pass through the forest amid the darkness of the night. As he was about to enter these gloomy woods, he beheld an old man of venerable aspect, of whom he inquired the way. The good old man was a shepherd. "Alas," said the old man, "it is not easy to show you the way. The forest is traversed by a thousand paths that cross one another and turn in every direction, and yet though they sometimes resemble one another, they all, with one single exception, lead to a fathomless abyss." "What abyss do you mean?" asked the traveler. "I mean," answered the old man, "the abyss that surrounds the entire forest.

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