The Generations · The Friends of God
may his secret be sanctified
His portrait is his lamp: no image survives, and none is needed.
Knowledge of the Substance is the Substance of knowledge.
In a general way the man of the "last days" is a blunted creature, and the best proof of this is that the only "dynamism" of which he is still capable is that which tends downward and which is no more than a passivity taking advantage of cosmic gravity; it is the agitation of a man who lets himself be carried away by a torrent and who imagines he is creating this torrent himself by his agitation.
Intelligence is beautiful only when it does not destroy faith, and faith is beautiful only when it is not opposed to intelligence.
