The invading army just stood there, looking to the hills.
It was difficult to believe, and almost impossible to understand.
Trying to understand was being changed in mind, and everyone tried to understand, because it was so special. And once they understood the spectacle before them, their minds crumbled as strongly as their metal armour seemed strong.
While they came armoured, with many arms, and training, and formations, the people had come dressed in white, short sleeves, no weapons, no armour, no banners, no ways of winning. They had come, men, women, and simply stood there, a bit apart, on the hills, as far as any could see into the great land. So many. So ready and prepared to die for their people, their nation, their soil.
The army could kill them. But then what? Be hated by all peoples? Arouse this great spirit of these people further, to true awakening, to an awakened state of unreasonable hatred and anger? If these men and women were prepared to die at any moment, all, for their group, then imagine their infinitely greater power when armed.
The army had their armour and weapons, but these were defenses, these formed an isolation against the dangers of the world. They were a weakness, a dangerous weakness. Without them... But these people of this land, they stood without these, strong. With them... they would be unstoppable.
So then, the leadership of the invading army dismounted, laid down in ceremonious slow acts their armour and weapons and banners and all glory and dreams of conquest, and bowed down on the grass before the great people, and asked them for forgiveness, delivering their lives into their mercy, and asking only that they might be as the children of this fearless people, and become in future time as one of them, and be granted to be fearless, and that also be granted to their children and onwards, this great infinity of collective invincibility.
Togetherness always utterly defeats the little hunger for power and fear of others of individuals. What use is power, if it is behind a wall? What need the disarmed fear, if all around them in spirit are one and eternal?
