And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

My course is set for an uncharted sea.

Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Follow your path, and let the people talk.

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.