advocate for the defense for the moment ... "Gentlemen of the jury,
my client Dr. X is not actuated by malignancy or greed; his main fault
is ignorance. Look at his position. A disciple of a great man whom he
can't possibly understand. I happened to watch his face when Bill Wash
ington was demonstrating the motor; it was that of a wondering baby
who didn't understand a word that was said. He doesn't believe in
Orgones; he merely believes that the great man has got something else
he can't understand. And because his position of ignorance makes him
feel so small a worm his personal devil whispers to him: 'Why the hell
should you support financially a thing that is far beyond your grasp?'
And maybe your great man Reich isn't so great after all; maybe he is
getting a rake-off from the money collected. That thought would at least
bring R. down to my low level." Frankly, Reich, in 1948 I had the im
pression that hardly one of the assembled workers had the faintest idea
of what you were talking about ... myself included. Are you asking too
much from them? Loyalty, yes, you can demand, but invention, origi
nality, inner freedom? No.
Maybe I am too old to grasp it all, but it seems to me that you have
around you a crowd who are waiting for you to tell 'em what to do.
Reich, you are one of the great men of our time; I say it as a simple
fact without any meaning of flattery or worship. Your message to the
world is a tremendous one that will only be realised later, i.e. if we
remain a free world. One result is that you are like the captain of a
ship, lonely apart, protected by an unwritten code ... you are Doctor
Reich not Reich. Jesus did not have a Jesus among the twelve, unless
Judas was a rival one at bottom. You have no Jesuses among your more
than twelve disciples, and, it seems to me, you are grousing at the fact
that there aren't any.
Gott sei Dank [Thank God] here is a letter that doesn;t mention
politics!
Oh, can you give me any news about Bill Washington and the motor?
Was he disloyal? Why did that motor rotate in summer 1948 and since
then I haven't heard a word about motor energy?
Did I tell you that I got 325 dollars from 20 people who had sub
scribed to the seminar and refused to take their money back? A most
touching gift.
P .S. A most arresting idea that of yours, that humanity rejects the
Christ, Lenin and seeks the hateful lesser Paul and Stalin. In a minor