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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: Seraphita,--enigmatical human flower,--whose image is before us in
this mysterious bloom."
"My dear friend," said the old man, emitting a puff of smoke, "to
explain the birth of that being it is absolutely necessary that I
disperse the clouds which envelop the most obscure of Christian
doctrines. It is not easy to make myself clear when speaking of that
incomprehensible revelation,--the last effulgence of faith that has
shone upon our lump of mud. Do you know Swedenborg?"
"By name only,--of him, of his books, and his religion I know
nothing."
"Then I must relate to you the whole chronicle of Swedenborg."
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