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An irony; the site where he would have never thought to search shelter, is now the only
place that offers the possibility to survive to the brutal change of the daily world, which
vanishes consumed by the ravenous and killer stake.

The man runs; runs desperate towards the saver lake. Behind him, an ardent and
implacable monster seems to be following him closer, gnashing the teeth, roaring and throwing
suffocating mouthfuls.

But it not possible to turn back and look, there would not be another opportunity. Just
remain to gain the lake, that never seemed to be so far as now. Finally, a paradise vision,
indescribable joy, mystical apparition, the lake emerges in his horizon.

Fantastically calm, is, for the one who escapes by millimetres from the death, an oasis of
peace. He throws himself into the protector waters and swims many armfuls, intuitively
towards the center. Only now he can turn back, momentarily, when he is saved in the fresh
waters, thus he can look towards, until a little time before, also secure World.

Considering the analogies that this metaphor offers with the aforementioned events, it
could be understood which was my spiritual state. As the man of the example, at seeing the
forest burning and disappearing for moments within the smoke, what constituted his World
and security, I also saw the dependable and daily reality being dissolved in a fire of
unmistakable evil.

As the man of the metaphor who felt strangely secure in the waters of the lake, till
yesterday fickle and unknown, I was also save now and firm in the, until yesterday, unknown
waters of the Spirit.

The man of the forest, while he was floating safe, was looking the world being consumed
and thought: –I’ve born again. I also felt reborn in the confine of the Soul and just for this
feeling inexpressible it could be said that I was another man, although essentially I continued
being the same.

Chapter VIII

I was going then, to the house of my parents, impregnated of that mystical optimism
that only those who knew themselves reborn experience. Once taken the decision to leave, I

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