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The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: Introduction (11.6)
As for the common worldly folk, what need is there to mention them! By fleeing, through fear, terror, and awe, they fall over the precipices into the unhappy worlds and suffer. But the least of the least of the devotees of the mystic mantrayand doctrines, as soon as he sees these blood-drinking deities, will recognize them to be his tutelary deities, and the meeting will be like that of human acquaintances. He will trust them; and becoming merged into them, in at-one-ment, will obtain Buddhahood.
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 8: The Buddha Path (17)
“To those who are timorous he manifests himself before them and gives them comfort: he first bestows fearlessness on them and then lets them awaken...