August 12, 1852. (Lancy.)—Each sphere
of being tends toward a higher sphere, and has already revelations
and presentiments of it. The ideal under all its forms is the
anticipation and the prophetic vision of that
existence, higher than
his own, toward which every being perpetually aspires. And this
higher and more
dignified existence is more inward in character,
that is to say, more spiritual. Just as volcanoes reveal to us the
secrets of the interior of the globe, so enthusiasm and ecstasy are
the passing explosions of this inner world of
the soul; and human
life is but the preparation and the means of approach to this
spiritual life. The degrees of
initiation are innumerable. Watch,
then, disciple of life, watch and labor toward the development of the
angel
within thee! For the divine Odyssey is but a series of more
and more ethereal metamorphoses, in which each
form, the result of
what goes before, is the condition of those which follow. The divine
life is a series of
successive deaths, in which the mind throws off
its imperfections and its symbols, and yields to the growing
attraction of the ineffable center of gravitation, the sun of
intelligence and love. Created spirits in the
accomplishment of
their destinies tend, so to speak, to form constellations and milky
ways within the
empyrean of the divinity; in becoming gods, they
surround the throne of the sovereign with a sparkling court.
In
their greatness lies their homage. The divinity with which they are
invested is the noblest glory of God.
God is the father of spirits,
and the constitution of the eternal kingdom rests on the vassalship
of love.
Amiel's Journal
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