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It wished to serve neither its own interests nor those Of the Supernal Light; and had no aim, only an aching inquisitiveness. Now the itch to know, coupled with the inability to care, produces there, as here, that restless and unsociable disposition which we classify as the result Of an imperfect and egotistical education. There, as here, it Of course frustrates itself; Since those who do not love can never understand. Hence this thing, which was free, was also ignorant and very wretched. The essence Of its wretchedness was, that because it, its ignorance and curiosity, had never been born, they could never die. They existed in the unchanging Idea, without hope Of release. Fortunately, it did not know this; for Spirit is as unable to conceive ending as man to conceive endlessness.

This something, then, was alive and utterly alone, with a loneliness that is only possible to the dis interested and discarnate. There was nothing for it to do, Since it could neither create, combine, nor destroy. It could think, but possessed no medium Of self-expression, no apparatus by which it could be linked up with other lives; for it did not love, and being immaterial, lacked the senses - those Oblique and clumsy substitutes for love by which men reach out towards each other's souls.

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Excerpt from The Column of Dust The dangers of curiosity "O Loveless, Hateless!... past the senseOf kindly-eyed benevolence, To what tune danceth this Immense?" Hardy: The Dynasts. I Choose for the first act of my comedy the spectacle of a complete freedom cruelly mated with an unquenchable curiosity. Such a liberty, clearly impossible to those who are fettered by the illusions of sense, is no natural prerogative even of the intangible and spiritual populations. Constrained by the unceasing pull and push of that love which moves the worlds, these are drawn forward to the joys of a selfless adoration, or downward to the weary miseries of individual self-fulfilment: those eternally opposing attitudes which an old-fashioned and clear-sighted theology has crudely classified as Heaven and Hell. This is the story of a being - a thing - a spirit, if you will - who loved nothing, and therefore was free. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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  • Publication date2018
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  • ISBN 13 9781331759591
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