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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: That cry froze them to the very marrow of their bones.
The SPIRIT knocked at the SACRED PORTAL. "What wilt thou?" answered a
CHOIR, whose question echoed among the worlds. "To go to God." "Hast
thou conquered?" "I have conquered the flesh through abstinence, I
have conquered false knowledge by humility, I have conquered pride by
charity, I have conquered the earth by love; I have paid my dues by
suffering, I am purified in the fires of faith, I have longed for Life
by prayer: I wait in adoration, and I am resigned."
No answer came.
"God's will be done!" answered the SPIRIT, believing that he was about
to be rejected.
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