That with him were, what time the Love Divine.
If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it’s flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I’ve heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.
O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.
Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.
No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.
Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary.
I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath.
It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.
Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
The experience of this sweet life.
O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!
Go right on and listen as thou goest.
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.
So may heaven’s grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.
Consider the sea’s listless chime: Time’s self it is, made audible.
My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.
Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.