When I got home, it was quite late, and the phone was ringing. I answered it, it was Mr. Durant on the other end."Mr. Salam, I have now read your whole book complete, cover to cover as they say, and I want to know what the riddle is, the so called Chinese puzzle, its terminology seems to have blurred that area up for me. I assume you got my letter."
"Well, it's about time you read it, and I suppose I can try to put it in a nutshell for you, if you can take my conception of the world, with a black frankness?" "Shoot, I mean go ahead, I'm not that closed mind." Replied Durant."It's only a 125-pages, but no time can be more favorable than now in which God sees the world in a shamefully misused way, and indeed may look the other way as He did at 9/ll. Leaders worldwide, only wish to further their own objectives over the masses, the political arena is a bullring. There is nobody to oppose them, but God Himself. These present-day leaders indeed wish to live it up, with power and greed and have special rules for them, and for us, obedient to their rules however they make them up, and they make them up at any unused moment. It is impossible that we have not adopted-or better put, approved the demon for the past 50-years to guide our societies. That truth will come quietly and modestly to the surface only to have a short lived life. Truth is no longer nobler than recognition, favoritism; they should go hand in hand. And truth today is what the people want it to be, not what it is."
"Well, what is the riddle," asked Mr. Durant."I must answer with hypocritical humility, and first I'll give you an example, then the maxim, if you don't mine. Would you build a library underground next to a neighbor's garden and not expect him to water it, thus, not waterproofing your library, which should be a must. Should it not? (Durant didn't answer, as if waiting for the punch line) I'll answer it for you, no you would not. If you did, you'd be a dumb head, or drumhead for someone to beat there drum sticks on. Now for the second part, 'Out of darkness comes light,' evidently you did not see that. In our world today of over seven-billion, we all speak not as if the other guy or gal doesn't exist, we act as we are separated from our one united human race, as being the only one that counts in the human race. God hates indifference."Asked the publisher "What does this light say about all of this?" "To accept the external world as real, and don't put your worse foot forward. Attack materialism, and nihilism. The most vital part of the light is God. Stop trying to explain God as matter, because we only see things as matter through the mind. There is a door, there is God, and there is a key, and he has it in his palm, it is to the entrance of the external world. Check out the Book of Isaiah. The crust of the earth, is much like the crust of the mind, there is much underneath it. Actually, here is where the vital resources resides."Are you aware, the 'Will' is stronger than the guide, if you are its master?" "Now what does that mean," asked Durant, "I read something on that in the book!"
"It means just what it means, that if the world cannot find a reason to stop the chaos, it is obvious they have found reasons and enough reasons, because they want it. Sometimes logic is useless, and useless knowledge becomes a form of income. This is the sum of my riddle, and of course the end, being the 'Will' or third part of the riddle, to do what has to be done, the world does not have the Will." "You didn't answer your answer complete?" exclaimed the publisher, "We'll publish your book, but to be frank I think the stupidest men in the world get their foxy words to have multi meanings, and our Board thought your book held some value, because of that." "Let me explain, once and for all Mr. Durant: Character resides in the 'Will,' not intellect, and this 'Will,' has eight wings: ambition, demand, determination, resolve, motivation, backbone, longing, hope against hope (God), and this is what the world lacks, Will!"
