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. I am far from denying the destructive and disintegrating forces of passion.Science will, in all probability, be increasingly impregnated by mysticism.Letter (5 September 1919), in The Making of a Mind: Letters from a Soldier-Priest 1914–1919.The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.Christ has a cosmic body that extends throughout the universe.Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self‑totalisation.
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