Conversation

"Man is an angel in animal flesh. For our earthly life we are welded to an animal. This animal is our body. Avoid people who have more animal in them than angel. You know them by their speech. The more one has evolved from animalism, the less his thoughts are concerned with the animal life of man. You hear the speech of the peasant every day: it is full of the words of the carnal life. They are the most uneducated. In their world of thought there are more concepts of the animal than of the ideal. Only suffering and love sometimes open the angel's lips in them, and then you see that their garments are like those I wrote about in the Samaritan's dream about Methuselah."