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Fire and crystal

Were I just landed by spaceship, I'd not expect to find the world other than it is.  But having lived here a while, and known moments of grandeur, I've often returned to earth with a strange expectation that I would find the world more like the vision.  The contrast is painful, but in time things do become brighter, fiery; all faces take on spiritual ambiguity, are luminous like sun behind clouds.

Mother Earth is dark in time, yet hides fire and crystal.  The Earth brightens in time and gives revelation. The mother of God is crystal and the fire of the crystal.  I see that the Mother of God is in the pure violet; we pass through her as a door. Then again I think I find her retreating even in the fearful face, and I fancy I find even in mockery a faint sparkle, a prelude to revelation. In the play of time and Absolute, all things hide opposites in forms that call to love regardless of condition.