The Beast and the Man

I meet a man with a hungry tiger in him-her , and was pretending to follow me, and allure me.

I thought this is a beast, a tiger appeared in my thoughts and then I thought and heard:
The tiger can only beat a man by ambushing, but a man can beat a tiger with good intelligence.


What did this mean? I heard;

Talk to the man with the beast in him-her breast:
Friend, I said, A beast cannot win against a man who knows a beast is there.  Cast out the beast within you and come and walk beside me. The man-beast was now afraid and called out : forget me, and say no more words to me, say you never knew me.

The Spirit said within me, say to the man:
Have no fear of me, I will never hurt you. No man can hurt another man; a man can only hurt himself.  

Hearing this the beast-man went away. But it was still hungry, and sought easier prey. 

The lesson to learn: the tiger symbolizes an invisible beast. A man can walk beside another man, but if the man is really a hungry beast, they cannot walk together, for the man will be killed and eaten for food.

From the Book of the Wise

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