Many say these are the days of awakening, and that the spiritual nature is seen more clearly now than in any other point of time. While there may be more open conversation, in select groups, and the written text is more readily acquired, it would be a false claim that awareness, clarity, consciousness, or mysticism is more predominant in these times.
On page 81 of Seraphita, it is stated:
“All things have a voice for the spirit. Spirits are in the secret of the harmony of all creations with each other; they complrened the spirit of sound, the spirit of color, the spirit of vegetable life; they can question the mineral, and the mineral makes answer to their thoughts.”
Seraphita first appeared in Le Livre Mystique, with Louis Lambert and Les Proscrits inParis, 1835. Portions of Seraphita had already been published in 1834 in the Revue de Paris.
As stated by Balzac in 1842, “Some persons, seeing me collect such a mass of facts and paint them as they are, with passion for their motive power, have supposed, but wrongly, that I must belong to the school of Sensualism and Materialism, two aspects of the same thing: Pantheism. But their misapprehension was perhaps justified, or inevitable. I do not share the belief in indefinite progress for society as a whole; I believe in man’s improvement in himself”
Seraphita is desribed as the doctrine in action of the Christian Buddha.
“We are born to aspire skyward. Our native home, like a mother’s face, never frightens its children.”
