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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Seraphita by Honore de Balzac: effulgent rays that the two Seers were paralyzed.
Like the three apostles to whom Jesus showed himself, they felt the
dead weight of their bodies which denied them a complete and cloudless
intuition of THE WORD and THE TRUE LIFE.
They comprehended the nakedness of their souls; they were able to
measure the poverty of their light by comparing it--a humbling task--
with the halo of the SERAPH.
A passionate desire to plunge back into the mire of earth and suffer
trial took possession of them,--trial through which they might
victoriously utter at the SACRED GATES the words of that radiant
Seraph.
Seraphita | 
