They who never enter into public life cannot possibly have the same feeling as those who are fond of society; at least, we do not have many examples of their doing generous actions. Their purses are generally as contracted as their minds, and both, as it were, are confined to a corner. The mysteries of nature by his awareness of the abyss that separates the Creator from the World of creatures. Among my ancestor’s mystical experience, the seminal one occurred in 1600, when he glanced at a pewter dish that reflected the Sunlight and in a rapt state saw the Being of Beings, the Byss and the Abyss, the eternal generation of the Trinity, the origin and descent of this World, and of all the creatures through the Divine Wisdom. The Abyss is God considered as the Ungrund—the undifferentiated Absolute that is ineffable and neither light nor darkness, neither love nor wrath. The eternal generation of the Trinity occurs because the Ungrund contains a will to self-intuition. This will (identified with the Father) finds itself as the heart (the Son). Emanating from these is the moving life (the Spirit).  This eternal process toward self-knowledge and outgoing dynamic activity generates the inner spiritual World, which is the prototype of the visible Universe. With differentiation, conflict of wills becomes possible; and Satan, in serving himself from the heart, falls. Sometimes it seems that evil is necessary, others times evil seems to spoil the cosmic harmony. Some lives are blessed; it is God’s will: it is the attesting trace and lingering evidence of Eden. Other lives run from the first another course.

Other travelers encounter weather fitful and gusty, wild and variable—brave adverse winds, are belated and overtaken by the early closing of Winter nights.  The doctrine of the Trinity considers the theory of seven qualities or energies in nature; and the fluidity of these metaphysics results from different ways of coordinating these two main aspects of thoughts. The seven qualities divide into two triads, a higher and a lower, between which there is a crucial energy called the flash (Blitz). God winds you up, and you go till He stops you. Energy is perhaps of all qualities the most valuable. The lower triad is contractions (whereby substances become individuated), diffusion (where by things gravitate to one another), and rotation or oscillation (the tension produced by the interplay of the forces of contraction and diffusion). The higher triad is in effect the lower triad transformed: it is love, expression, and eternal nature of the Kingdom of God, through which there is achieved a harmony between the material and spiritual World. The soul is corporeal and is the form of the body, it seems to have been constructed for another sphere of existence. The soul separable from the body in life and at death. It possesses unity, and its function is to vivify the extended matter of the body. The powers of the soul, including sensation and appetite, are seen as modeled on the will: they act directly upon the body with no need of an intermediary. When my soul shall be separated from my body, will there exist less order or perfection in the creation? Angels, too, are material, and the human soul is inhabited not only by a good angel and a bad angel, but also by a large number of spirits, each in charge of a special gift. 

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. The meaning of this evolutionary scheme is that the Trinity considered in itself is merely formal or ideal. The abysmal will needs a real object to arouse self-knowledge. Thus, the Father differentiates himself through the first (lower) triad into material nature. An obstacle is thereby created to the abysmal will, which can be overcome, not by abolition, but only by transformation. The flash is the collision, as it were, between the absolute will and nature. Herein, the Spirit reveals in its light the higher triad, identifies with the Son as the incarnation of spirit in matter. This is the goal of the divine operation, whereby the opposition is overcome and made into harmony. There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. When there is a belief in happiness, a new creed becomes yours. Psychologically, the flash reveals to humans their choices. One can remain at the level of anguish implicit in the welter of sensation represented by the oscillation of nature; or one can die unto self, and identify oneself with the abysmal will—which also has to negate itself in order to achieve victory. Thus, the mystical life is an imitation of Christ’s suffering and triumph. In the contemplation of beauty, the inherently corrupt soul could transform its love for the physical and material into a purely spiritual love of God. When the people around me were not only inexpressive, but preoccupied, I turned to my physical environment, taking on a new appreciation for the garden’s towering trees, midnight green grass, vibrant colourful flowers, and decorative bushes.

I noticed that the garden was bisected by a brick path, and the pattern of its rectangles reminded me of the charming architectural details in the brick walls of the elaborate houses in Wilmington, Delaware USA, which is near my parents’ house; the verticals and horizontals were also to be discovered in the ornate clapboard walls, the fences lining the peaceful houses, and the lattices in the enchanting gardens. In my newfound passion (no other word will do for the adore I felt) for something to love, I came to cherish the architecture, landscape, and the sweet smell of the air. This love welled up inside of me, igniting a desire that united me with my community and family and that feeling has occupied me ever since, tracing its source back to my childhood. If you do not find love in your heart or something delightful to focus on, you can think yourself crazy. However, I decided to use my mind, as I was taught by my teachers in school, to expand the World of art into a global village, a brave new World of art, in which my ways of seeing are almost limitless. This exposes the traditional nature and culture to a strategy that authorizes the intellectual domination of one’s environment. We can change identities as readily as we change our clothes, picking and choosing who we are from the images we have in our minds. One can learn to draw on personal experiences. Since God made the Earth, one could sense the majesty of His soul in His handiwork, much as one can sense their heart beating in their chest.  Winter leaves me a dream, although it is mysterious, it is sweet. When I open my eyes, I find a colourful spring ahead of me. Memories bring us the past years warmth and worries at departing time. I wish you have only warm things and have no more worries. Year by year, trials and hardships; day by day, Sunrise and Sunset—friendship is in our hearts. Pass through boundless years and list good memories. Remember me just like I remember you, now and then. I wish you a healthy and happy life and dream come true. I post my sincere blessing to you, my whispers of blessings are all around you. May happiness rain down on you. I wish you lobe and creditable life. Let us listen to the blessings of the Earth in this beautiful and warm World, and have a successful and promising new year.