All quiet on the western front, analogies Options

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All quiet on the western front…analogies

This could be about the Great War 1914-1918, the ‘war to end all wars’, the war that all other wars that followed to the present were fought on account of, but it is not. It is about the analogies of the spiritual journey that are drawn from it, as they were recounted to me by one who was so familiar with it. If you would give some analogies to the spiritual not necessarily related to War...

Eastern front - birth, beginning of one’s special faith, initiation, promise of eternal service
Warfare - repeated tests of that faith, most die or go away along the line, but you go on
Allies
Going ‘over the top’ – distributing one’s treasure among those who attack it
Enemies
Machine gunning - fixing upon faith’s object by repetition, habit, determination
Trench –sensual or mental lapse, any impossible obstacle that must be overcome
Digging in - protecting the creeper from constant attacks
No man’s land – no engagement, no discrimination, no shelter
Western front – maturing bhakti for those who have survived so long, the most subtle and powerful tests, meeting death, entering the womb of a mother within Gokula Vrindavana, or going to any of the abodes where your own relationship with God thrives best (rasa)