Scorpion Wind Some Colossus
Know from henceforth that the kind of person who
destiny calls: the ordinary rules of life are reversed
and become quite different.
Good and evil are transferred to another and higher
plane, then virtues which might be applauded in an
ordinary person would in you become vices, simply
because they would only be the source of obstacles and
ruin.
While the great law of the world is not to do this, or
that, to avoid one thing, or pursue another: it is to
live.
To enlarge and develop our most active and sublime
qualities in such a way that from any sphere we can
always strive to reach another one that is wider and
more airy, more elevated. Do not forget that.
Go straight ahead.
Simply do as you please insofar as it serves your
interests.
Leave weakness and scruple to the petty minds and to
the rabble of underlings.
There is only one consideration worthy of you: the
elevation and greatness of yourself.
I think that a decent man, a man who feels he has some
soul, has now more than ever the strict duty of falling
back upon himself, and since he can't save others, of
striving for his own betterment.
That is the essential task in times like ours.
Everything that has been lost by society does not
disappear, but takes refuge in individual lives.
The mass is petty, wretched, shameful, and repugnant.
The isolated man can rise above these, and just as in
the ruins of Egypt, amidst heaps of rubble, broken and
unrecognizable fragments, walls that have collapsed or
subsided and are often difficult to repair, there will
have survived some colossus, rusting into the sky
which, by it's very height, preserves an idea of the
nobility of the temple or town, now razed to the ground
forever.
So in the same way these isolated men can help to
preserve our conception of God's noblest and
finest creatures ought to be like.
