The body

"After all, if we came to this Earth to perfect, how can we fail life? Can we not doubt the wisdom of the Creator if such mistakes can be made on the path of life? Is this one of our faults, that we regard the Creator as living for our sake, as if God had no other concern than to guide us, like the Vlach guide the mountain climbers! What if he is not for us, but we are for him? Surely the cause of our error is not God, but ourselves. But why? Man's greatest treasure is free will. We have certainly been given this treasure in full. God did not want to bind us to himself one iota. God did not want to rule over us, nor did he want to bind us to himself by law or decree. We were pure souls. But it was the joy of free will, of trying out absolute independence, that allowed our butterfly wings to take hold: we flew where we wanted to fly. We got away from him. Maybe we wanted to be gods. Maybe we wanted to create a new world. Maybe we are the fallen angels that every race, every religion knows about. We're departed, obscured, like the glass in the ground. Our powers are gone, our celestial qualities are all that remains but a flicker of love, a languid creative force manifested in the arts, the music and the vague memory of God's name. Did God create this material world, or is it still our creation from that great time? Is it myth the paradise, or an ancestral memory transformed into earthly concepts? Is it myth the forbidden tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, or is it the shrinking of the great story into a small allegory? Is it myth the departure from Paradise? Is it myth the confusion of Babel? Or is it an earthly colourful fairy-tale image of a great revolution in the sky? And who was Jesus, this man of wondrous intellect, who at once appeared among us and brought news from the world beyond the stars; whose heart was not an earthly heart, whose thinking was not an earthly thinking. Who was he? Where did he come from? Why did he come? He himself answers all these questions. Whether his word is true? four have written the story of his suffering. None of them mention that he retracted his claims, nor that he asked for mercy. No one has ever allowed himself to be executed for a lie."