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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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fidingly turn for inspiration and for solace. But
those who were chosen to tell us the story of this
great life piled Pelion on Ossa of intellectual diffi-
culty — Pelion of resurrection on Ossa of virgin
birth. Frightened by these uplifted rocks, we are
then forced to sail between the Scylla of individual
interpretation of ancient writings, on the one hand,
and, on the other, the Charybdis of severe church
authority, rising from foundations of musty tradi-
tion. Under the lee of this Charybdis rock, Angi-
nieur's bark, driven by fate, had been anchored, and
some peace found, but a peace disturbed by thoughts
of the many who seemed to have vanished out into
the far sea of unbelief. And lo! there, where the
storm of doubt has been outridden, there also is
peace. There one sees his neighbour-barks sink
quietly, sails all furled, into the sea from which
they rose. Some, in the gradual engulfment of
age, seem but to nestle back into the water as the
tired child seeks its couch. Others, downward drawn
by a law more sudden and more secret in its drift,
swirl quickly out of vision.
As the mariner goes down, the clear sky around
him is not peopled by fantastic forms of Jewish,
Egyptian, Greek, or German myth. Under the
smooth sea which receives him, no Satan, no Pluton
dwells. The law gave him birth, set him to move
athwart the sea of existence, called the voyage Life;
is now about to end it, and for whatever he may
now be, something or nothing, he is still held by
the law. Or so it all seemed to me in the black
silence of the nights when the days were ended and
their hopes were buried with the setting sun. The
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