[Seraphita by Honore de Balzac]@TWC D-Link bookSeraphita CHAPTER VI 23/25
Often she triumphs in the name of God; frightened men deny her and put her to death; smiling, she lays down her sword and goes to the stake, having saved the Peoples. How many a pardoned Angel has passed from martyrdom to heaven! Sinai, Golgotha are not in this place nor in that; Angels are crucified in every place, in every sphere.
Sighs pierce to God from the whole universe.
This earth on which we live is but a single sheaf of the great harvest; humanity is but a species in the vast garden where the flowers of heaven are cultivated.
Everywhere God is like unto Himself, and everywhere, by prayer, it is easy to reach Him." With these words, which fell from the lips of another Hagar in the wilderness, burning the souls of the hearers as the live coal of the word inflamed Isaiah, this mysterious being paused as though to gather some remaining strength.
Wilfrid and Minna dared not speak.
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