The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition (Philemon)
The spirit of this time has condemned us to haste.
You have no more futurity and no more past if you serve the spirit of this time. We need the life of eternity.
We bear the future and the past in the depths.
The future is old and the past is young.
You serve the spirit of this time, and believe that you are able to escape the spirit of the depths.
But the depths do not hesitate any longer and will force you into the mysteries of Christ.
It belongs to this mystery that man is not redeemed through the hero, but becomes a Christ himself
The antecedent example of the saints symbolically teaches us this.
Henryk Siemiradzki. Phryne in Eleusus (1889).