in his speech accepting the nomination as the Democratic candidate for vice president, in Washington, D. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." "One day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity" - after all the scientific and technological achievements - "we shall harness for God the energies of love."The Evolution of Chastity" (February 1934), as translated in Toward the Future (1975) edited by by René Hague, who also suggests "space" as an alternate translation of "the ether.".And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Sooner or later, then, the world will brush aside our incredulity and take this step : because whatever is the more true comes out into the open, and whatever is better is ultimately realized. And so we cannot avoid this conclusion: it is biologically evident that to gain control of passion and so make it serve spirit must be a condition of progress. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them. What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity.The depths we attribute to matter are no more than the reflection of the peaks of spirit. It is in these invisible and, we might almost say, immaterial zones that we can look for true initiation into unity. But, for all the fascination that the lower shades have for us, it is only towards the "ultra" that the creation of light advances.
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Beyond the vibrations with which we are familiar, the rainbow-like range of its colours is still in full growth. The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe."The Evolution of Chastity" (1934), as translated by René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)."The more dangerous a thing, the more is its conquest ordained by life": it is from that conviction that the modern world has emerged and from that our religion, too, must be reborn. Avoiding the risk of transgression has become more important to us than carrying a difficult position for God.
The customary education of the Christian conscience tends to make us confuse tutiorism with prudence, safety with truth. Only a mountain can create a terrifying drop. "Very well, then," say the moralists, "we must avoid it." "Not at all," I reply, "we take hold of it." In every domain of the real (physical, affective, intellectual) "danger" is a sign of power. But what do these excesses prove? Because fire consumes and electricity can kill are we to stop using them? The feminine is the most formidable of the forces of matter. I will go so far as to agree that apart from the reproductive function, men have hitherto used love, on the whole, as an instrument of self-corruption and intoxication.
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