BABOONS and materially thinking mortals have certain mental qualities in common. For instance, baboons often raid the cornfields in South Africa and damage the crops. They like pumpkin seeds, so the farmers take sizable pumpkins, cut holes in them just large enough for a baboon's paw to pass through, leave the pumpkins in or near the cornfield, and keep watch.
When the baboon finds his pumpkin, in goes his paw to get the seeds. He gathers a paw full; then finds he is in trouble. The hole is too small to let him withdraw his closed paw. He has two alternatives: one is to let go of the seeds by opening his paw, which he can then withdraw. Then he is free to beat a hasty retreat. Or he may hold on to the seeds and have his retreat so slowed by the encumbering pumpkin that the one on watch can overtake and capture him. Usually he hangs on to the seeds and suffers the consequences. His willful greed decides his doom. Many mortals grimly cling to the tidbits of material belief, and become, captives in a captivity made by their holding on to that of which they should let go.
The determination with which the leaders of the Axis powers have clung to their mad desire for world conquest, happen what will, illustrates the way the material mind dispossesses men of sane thinking, and ensnares them for destruction.
