14 July 1865
The Darkness at nightfall on the mountain.
Palau tells us of the negative part of his existence: My God! What am I? A shadow and…worse than a shadow. I am what is not: I am powerlessness for good, and strength for bad.
And at the same time of the conviction given him by his Beloved:
- Good. But how can you, who are infinitely beautiful and loveable, love me? How can you love such an ugly thing?
- I love not what you are and have in yourself, but what is infinitely loveable and beautiful in you.
- What is that? I do not see such loveliness and beauty in myself.
- In you I love the image of your God, which is beautiful and loveable like myself.
(MR p. 897)
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