What is power?

          "Another time I asked for a little more light on Holy Saturday. I saw a vast tall building in yellowish stone, flat-fronted and rectangular, reaching up to and piercing a small cloud. There were a few windows in it. We went up and I asked, sort of off-the-cuff, if this was the Tower of Babel. A said no. We reached the top and from the little cloud ran a damp darkish foot-path, but with light like moonlight piercing through the dark. In the light I glimpsed running water. We walked along this path, and as we did so I realized the path had become a corridor along a very large grand yellowish governmental building as it were, as in the Roman Empire, and a lot of people were walking along with us fast. This building represented worldly power and authority. Then we went down some steps to the right, to ground-level. The corridor and steps were in the open, outside. At the bottom of the steps we looked across a dark square to where three crosses stood with their victims blackened and dead. We did not go across because this was merely to show the death and darkness experienced by Christ when placed in the hands of worldly authority.

          The vertical building probably demonstrated the climb in worldly authority to its’ pinnacle, embodied in the worldly power exercised by the Roman Empire. And the level corridor the experience of this power. I don’t know what the little dark damp path meant. The black crosses and figures represented Golgotha. This was the seeming triumph that day of worldly power over spiritual. And spiritual power hidden, but acting unseen, the worldly power impotent to challenge it, and heading for destruction. What use the big tall buildings?"

         "A Spiritual Diary"