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Madame d’Esperance - Shadow Land - 29 The mole and the bird
Identifier
020820
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SHADOW LAND OR LIGHT FROM THE OTHER SIDE by Elisabeth d’Esperance(1897)
He may not be learned in the classics, he may not know Greek from Latin, but compared with them he is as a skylark to a mole. While these whose interests are of the earthly pursue their occupation of pulverising and throwing up little mounds of the soil in which they find their sustenance, blind to everything on the earth above them, the bird though making his home low down on its surface can mount on light wings into the world of air and sunshine, with his joyful song of praise.
Of him and such as he were the words spoken: "The pure in heart shall see God;" for so it is, that only they who have clean minds, clean bodies, and a sincere desire for light will find the truth.
The man whose spirit is held in the bondage of his appetite, who clouds his brain and destroys his nerves by the poison of nicotine, or unduly excites them by the incense of wine, is no fit candidate for communion with those passed on to the world of spirit.
Nor is he, who is urged on merely by the desire to substantiate some pet idea or vague dream, to establish a theory, or to aggrandize his reputation as a man of learning, or as a discoverer, any better fitted for the work. Unless a Purer and better motive than these leads him on, let him not embark on the quest for he will fail.
And he who seeks only to discover deceit in others, thereby betraying the falseness in himself, will find that which he seeks- falsehood; the truth he will never discover.