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louis lambert-第23部分

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  scourge of the earth: its glory because it has created social
  life; its scourge because it allows man to evade entering into
  Specialism; which is one of the paths to the Infinite。 Man
  measures everything by Abstractions: Good and Evil; Virtue and
  Crime。 Its formula of equity is a pair of scales; its justice is
  blind。 God's justice sees: there is all the difference。

  There must be intermediate Beings; then; dividing the sphere of
  Instinct from the sphere of Abstractions; in whom the two elements
  mingle in an infinite variety of proportions。 Some have more of
  one; some more of the other。 And there are also some in which the
  two powers neutralize each other by equality of effect。



XVI

  Specialism consists in seeing the things of the material universe
  and the things of the spiritual universe in all their
  ramifications original and causative。 The greatest human geniuses
  are those who started from the darkness of Abstraction to attain
  to the light of Specialism。 (Specialism; /species/; sight;
  speculation; or seeing everything; and all at once; /Speculum/; a
  mirror or means of apprehending a thing by seeing the whole of
  it。) Jesus had the gift of Specialism; He saw each fact in its
  root and in its results; in the past where it had its rise; and in
  the future where it would grow and spread; His sight pierced into
  the understanding of others。 The perfection of the inner eye gives
  rise to the gift of Specialism。 Specialism brings with it
  Intuition。 Intuition is one of the faculties of the Inner Man; of
  which Specialism is an attribute。 Intuition acts by an
  imperceptible sensation of which he who obeys it is not conscious:
  for instance; Napoleon instinctively moving from a spot struck
  immediately afterwards by a cannon ball。



XVII

  Between the sphere of Abstraction and that of Specialism; as
  between those of Abstraction and Instinct; there are beings in
  whom the attributes of both combine and produce a mixture; these
  are men of genius。



XVIII

  Specialism is necessarily the most perfect expression of man; and
  he is the link binding the visible world to the higher worlds; he
  acts; sees; and feels by his inner powers。 The man of Abstraction
  thinks。 The man of Instinct acts。



XIX

  Hence man has three degrees。 That of Instinct; below the average;
  that of Abstraction; the general average; that of Specialism;
  above the average。 Specialism opens to man his true career; the
  Infinite dawns on him; he sees what his destiny must be。



XX

  There are three worldsthe Natural; the Spiritual; and the
  Divine。 Humanity passes through the Natural world; which is not
  fixed either in its essence and unfixed in its faculties。 The
  Spiritual world is fixed in its essence and unfixed in its
  faculties。 The Divine world is necessarily a Material worship; a
  Spiritual worship; and a Divine worship: three forms expressed in
  action; speech; and prayer; or; in other words; in deed;
  apprehension; and love。 Instinct demands deed; Abstraction is
  concerned with Ideas; Specialism sees the end; it aspires to God
  with presentiment or contemplation。



XXI

  Hence; perhaps; some day the converse of /Et Verbum caro factum
  est/ will become the epitome of a new Gospel; which will proclaim
  that The Flesh shall be made the Word and become the Utterance of
  God。



XXII

  The Resurrection is the work of the Wind of Heaven sweeping over
  the worlds。 The angel borne on the Wind does not say: 〃Arise; ye
  dead〃; he says; 〃Arise; ye who live!〃

Such are the meditations which I have with great difficulty cast in a
form adapted to our understanding。 There are some others which Pauline
remembered more exactly; wherefore I know not; and which I wrote from
her dictation; but they drive the mind to despair when; knowing in
what an intellect they originated; we strive to understand them。 I
will quote a few of them to complete my study of this figure; partly;
too; perhaps; because; in these last aphorisms; Lambert's formulas
seem to include a larger universe than the former set; which would
apply only to zoological evolution。 Still; there is a relation between
the two fragments; evident to those personsthough they be but few
who love to dive into such intellectual deeps。



I

  Everything on earth exists solely by motion and number。



II

  Motion is; so to speak; number in action。



III

  Motion is the product of a force generated by the Word and by
  Resistance; which is Matter。 But for Resistance; Motion would have
  had no results; its action would have been infinite。 Newton's
  gravitation is not a law; but an effect of the general law of
  universal motion。



IV

  Motion; acting in proportion to Resistance; produces a result
  which is Life。 As soon as one or the other is the stronger; Life
  ceases。



V

  No portion of Motion is wasted; it always produces number; still;
  it can be neutralized by disproportionate resistance; as in
  minerals。



VI

  Number; which produces variety of all kinds; also gives rise to
  Harmony; which; in the highest meaning of the word; is the
  relation of parts to the whole。



VII

  But for Motion; everything would be one and the same。 Its
  products; identical in their essence; differ only by Number; which
  gives rise to faculties。



VIII

  Man looks to faculties; angels look to the Essence。



IX

  By giving his body up to elemental action; man can achieve an
  inner union with the Light。



X

  Number is intellectual evidence belonging to man alone; by it he
  acquires knowledge of the Word。



XI

  There is a Number beyond which the impure cannot pass: the Number
  which is the limit of creation。



XII

  The Unit was the starting…point of every product: compounds are
  derived from it; but the end must be identical with the beginning。
  Hence this Spiritual formula: the compound Unit; the variable
  Unit; the fixed Unit。



XIII

  The Universe is the Unit in variety。 Motion is the means; Number
  is the result。 The end is the return of all things to the Unit;
  which is God。



XIV

  Three and Seven are the two chief Spiritual numbers。



XV

  Three is the formula of created worlds。 It is the Spiritual Sign
  of the creation; as it is the Material Sign of dimension。 In fact;
  God has worked by curved lines only: the Straight Line is an
  attribute of the Infinite; and man; who has the presentiment of
  the Infinite; reproduces it in his works。 Two is the number of
  generation。 Three is the number of Life which includes generation
  and offspring。 Add the sum of four; and you have seven; the
  formula of Heaven。 Above all is God; He is the Unit。



After going in to see Louis once more; I took leave of his wife and
went home; lost in ideas so adverse to social life that; in spite of a
promise to return to Villenoix; I did not go。

The sight of Louis had had some mysteriously sinister influence over
me。 I was afraid to place myself again in that heavy atmosphere; where
ecstasy was contagious。 Any man would have felt; as I did; a longing
to throw himself into the infinite; just as one soldier after another
killed himself in a certain sentry box where one had committed suicide
in the camp at Boulogne。 It is a known fact that Napoleon was obliged
to have the hut burned which had harbored an idea that had become a
mortal infection。

Louis' room had perhaps the same fatal effect as that sentry box。

These two facts would then be additional evidence in favor of his
theory of the transfusion of Will。 I was conscious of strange
disturbances; transcending the most fantastic results of taking tea;
coffee; or opium; of dreams or of fevermysterious agents; whose
terrible action often sets our brains on fire。

I ought perhaps to have made a separate book of these fragments of
thought; intelligible only to certain spirits who have been accustomed
to lean over the edge of abysses in the hope of seeing to the bottom。
The life of that mighty brain; which split up on every side perhaps;
like a too vast empire; would have been set forth in the narrative of
this man's visionsa being incomplete for lack of force or of
weakness; but I preferred to give an account of my own impressions
rather than to compose a more or less poetical romance。



Louis Lambert died at the age of twenty…eight; September 25; 1824; in
his true love's arms。 He was buried by her desire in an island in the
park at Villenoix。 His tombstone is a plain stone cross; without name
or date。 Like a flower that has blossomed on the margin of a
precipice; and drops into it; its colors and fragrance all unknown; it
was fitting that he too should fall。 Like many another misprized soul;
he had often yearned to dive haughtily into the void; and abandon
there the secrets of his own life。

Mademoiselle de Villenoix would; however; have been quite justified in
recording his name on that cross with her own。 Since her partner's
death; reunion has been her constant; hourly hope。 But the vanities of
woe are foreign to faithful souls。

Villenoix is falling into ruin。 She no longer resides there; to the
end; no doubt; that she may the better picture herself there as she
used to be。 She had said long ago:

〃His heart was mine; his genius is with God。〃



CHATEAU DE SACHE。 June…July 1832。






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