I again lived entirely and single-mindedly in the desire to put away the dark and the bad,
and to dwell completely in the light, on my knees before my gods.
Still, this “bright world” I built up was to a certain extent my own creation.
It was not the action of flying back or of crawling back to mother, to a security without responsibilities.
It was a new service upon which I entered, invented by myself for my own requirements, with responsibilities and discipline of self.
The sex consciousness from which I suffered and before which I was in constant flight was now transmuted in this sacred fire to spirit and devotion.
The grim and horrible would disappear, I should groan through no more agonizing nights,
there would be no more heart-beatings in front of lewd pictures,
no more listening at forbidden doors, no more lasciviousness.
Instead of all this, I set up my altar, with the picture of Beatrice,
and in dedicating myself to her I dedicated myself to the spirit and to the gods.
That part of myself which I withdrew from the powers of darkness I brought as a sacrifice to the powers of light.
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