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the path to make that, by means of the work, he could free himself harshly from his
necessity. The spiritual beggars of our days are, unfortunately, excessively inclined to
accept in species the alms of Orient, that’s to say to seize without reflection from the
spiritual possessions of Orient and imitate blindly its manner and mode».

All these reasoning took me to conclusion: In whom searches parapsychological
phenomenic Power –thaumaturgy– there’s always an ignorant or a misinformed. In whom
promises to give it, can only be a perverse will. Thence that I decided to consider a
«synchronistic coincidence» any possible reaction between the spiritual rapture of the day 21 of
January and the simultaneous seism. ¡Belicena and all her ancestors of the House of Tharsis,
and the Liberator Gods, and any spiritual Being who watching my behaviour could be tranquil
in Walhalla!: for me, the end of the mystic vision signalized the end of the transcendental
experience: neither I disposed of a Power capable to operate over the Matter, nor I
wanted to have it. The Potencies of the Matter didn’t achieve to deceive me this time
and, possibly, they would never achieve it.

I made these reflections while the kilometres passed rapidly and Salta was opening
generously on its valleys and ravines. «Within zones of coloured and straight peaks, are
the slopes with exuberant vegetation and framed by rocks of wild appearance, some
of them famous like the Obispo, a slope really striking for its development and variety

of motives» I read in a map that that I’ve acquired in Cerrillos. I was then near to Cafayate,
where I planned to have a dinner and acquire some gifts, specially the exquisite wine of the
zone. When improvised journeys are realized, as the one in which I was, through Provinces or
regions of extreme poverty, it is always convenient to bring comestible gifts. A litre of good
Torrontés or some gingerbread can open impossible doors, border controls and save every type
of difficulties.

I entered to Cafayate and after that I realized some shopping in a house of regional
articles, I parked in front of the Town square Libertad to dine in a restaurant that promised in
a blackboard «Menu of the day: stuffed bread and hot chicken».

Chapter X

At 14:30 hrs. I was again on the road, surrounding the stream De las Conchas and
disposed to undertake the second part of the journey to Santa María.

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