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The Gateway of Faith Reason! O Reason! You have kept the window of logic open in your palace, but the doors of faith are all locked. Your beloved consort has arrived at your door, honouring your invitation, but the gates are all closed. How can he enter within: Reason! O Reason! Throw open the gates of faith straightway, or else, the great Apostle shall return from without!
The Ecstasy of Spirit Renounce everything else, my friend! but not, indeed, the bliss of your soul. Abdicate all that you have, if need be, for the sake of this bliss of your soul, but maintain anyway the ecstasy of spirit. For that ecstasy is the one alchemy that can transmute life into immortality. One who would miss the bliss of the soul, may perchance attain to all the precious things of this world; but even so, what would he have attained in reality: What would be the worth of a flower once its fragrance has faded away?
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