In a message dated 98-01-12 02:58:38 EST, you write: << No no no, ECAS. Leave your ego alone. It's the only one you'll ever have. Forget all that oriental rubbish. The benign resignation you see on all their yellow faces owes much more to avitaminosis than insight. Blake's the man for you: "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." Scottie B. >> HA! That was a parody of Swedendborg, was not it....not to be taken at face value? Jim