cowards have no part to play.
Naturally it takes a certain amount of courage for a man to see himself on any sort of equality with a God, in whom he believes. Nevertheless this is what I have been arguing that the ordinary man must do, from the end of Part I onwards. I have tried to show that to have any real hope of solving the ordinary problems of life, personal, family, and social, he has no alternative but to acquire a perfectly relaxed consciousness; and that, whether he likes it or not, is putting himself on the beginning of an equality with God. To avoid being on any sort of equality with God, you must insist on being mentally, spiritually, and physically deformed!
There is another way a man can put himself on an equality with God. He can say egotistically, “I am God”, or, “I am God's accredited representative”. This is the first step to the lunatic asylum, and certification under the Mental Health Act. For instance; if a man says, “God has given me power to forgive sin”, when in fact he has not got power to forgive sin, because he cannot persuade a man obsessed by guilt to throwaway his guilt, then the man is on the first stage towards madness. There is no harm in a man claiming power to forgive sin, if he can free a fellow man from obsessive guilt. But if a man claims and persists in claiming powers which he has not got, he jettisons his honesty, and risks his sanity. Remember Shakespeare's King Lear. When he had divested himself of his kingdom, and begun to realise the impotence to which Regan and Goneril had reduced him, in reproaching them Shakespeare makes him say:-
What they are yet 1 know not,-but they shall be
The terrors of the earth.”