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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: be THE LIGHT Itself.
It was the Messenger of good tidings, the plume of whose helmet was a
flame of Life.
Behind him lay the swath of his way gleaming with a flood of the
lights through which he passed.
He bore a palm and a sword. He touched the SPIRIT with the palm, and
the SPIRIT was transfigured. Its white wings noiselessly unfolded.
This communication of THE LIGHT, changing the SPIRIT into a SERAPH and
clothing it with a glorious form, a celestial armor, poured down such
effulgent rays that the two Seers were paralyzed.
Like the three apostles to whom Jesus showed himself, they felt the
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