10/30 At this moment you are aware of the coming change!" "No one ever made me. I defy that Power to unmake me from a free woman! You are his slave, and I defy you! You may be able to torture me--I do not know, but you shall not compel me to anything against my will!" "Such a compulsion would be without value. But there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's--not the Shadow's. Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!" "That light shall not enter me: I hate it!--Begone, slave!" "I am no slave, for I love that light, and will with the deeper will which created mine. There is no slave but the creature that wills against its creator. |