The Cult

A Westerner visits a Guru
And finds "Enlightenment."
I had experienced enlightenment while reading the Tao Te Tsing;
It is the very tapping into the ether of existence.
It is seeing the substrates,
The ether of our world.
And its invisible strings.

Cults, Rather than point to this objective phenomena,
Find it and then
Say, "I am its source."
Verily, cult leaders have pointed
To many objects in the past
And said "This is the source."
Pythagoras with Geometry.
Many malignant individuals, themselves.
Hindus cows.

Rather, there truly is something real
Which can be tapped into.
And only one of those leaders
Ever produced sanity in His followers.
Because he could satisfy 
By raising from the dead.
He could satisfy by healing the blind.
He could satisfy by being perfect and without a single stain of sin.

The danger is that something true exists...
We can, indeed, find it.
Easterners called it Tao.
Westerners called it Logos.
Jews call it Faith.

The experience is true.
But, when its source becomes conflated
With an idol, that is when there is spiritual abuse.