A man who has given his heart to learning and true wisdom and exercised that part of himself is surely bound, if he attains to truth, to have immortal and divine thoughts, and cannot fail to achieve immortality as full as is permitted to human nature; and because he has always looked after divine element in himself and kept his guardian spirit in good order he must be happy above all men.
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Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.
Thus our State, which is also yours, will be a reality, and not a dream only, and will be administered in a spirit unlike that of other States, in which men fight with one another about shadows only and are distracted in the struggle for power, which in their eyes is a great good.
I swayed between fear, defiance, and nausea, and was wholly the prey of my passion. I could not and did not want to listen to the depths. But on the seventh night, the spirit of the depths spoke to me: Look into your depths, pray to your depths, waken the dead.
The spirit of the depths took my understanding and all my knowledge and placed them at the service of the inexplicable and the paradoxical. He robbed me of speech and writing for everything that was not in his service, namely the melting together of sense and nonsense, which produces the supreme meaning.
If we are to do justice to the essence of the thing we call spirit, we should really speak of a higher consciousness rather than of the unconscious.
The mercy which happened to me gave me belief, hope, and sufficient daring, not to resist further the spirit of the depths, but to utter his word. But before I could pull myself together to really do it, I needed a visible sign that would show me that the spirit of the depths in me was at the same time the ruler of the depths of world affairs.
We must not underestimate the devastating effect of getting lost in the chaos, even if we know that it is the “sine qua non” of any regeneration of the spirit and the personality.
My God is a child, so wonder not that the spirit of this time in me is incensed to mockery and scorn.
The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
