How do I know that love of life is not a delusion after all? How do I know but that he who dreads to die is as a child who has lost the way and cannot find his home?
Innocence
Innocence is often depicted as an innate purity and untainted state of being, reminiscent of the soul’s original essence. It embodies a childlike wonder, free from the burdens of prejudice, malice, or ulterior motives. This unblemished quality is not just the absence of wrongdoing but represents a proactive embrace of virtues like trust, openness, and genuine love. As life’s complexities and challenges mount, this innocence can become obscured, yet it remains a touchstone for spiritual seekers aiming to reconnect with their true nature. Across spiritual landscapes, innocence is both a beginning point and a revered destination, symbolizing the soul’s timeless journey back to its pristine, uncorrupted state.
The tincture pierced through the earth, and through all elements, and tinctured all; and then paradise was on earth, and in man; for evil was hidden: as the night is hidden in the day, so the wrath of nature was also hidden in the first Principle, till the fall of man; and then the divine working, with the tincture, fled into their own Principle, into the inward ground of the light-world.
When Adam our first father dwelt in the garden of Eden he was clothed, as men are in heaven, with the Divine light. When he was driven forth from Eden to do the ordinary work of earth, then Holy Writ tells us that "the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skin and clothed them." For, ere this, they wore coats of light, of that light which belongs to Eden.