. Stories for the household . rstood ; but these were just as clever asmost grown-up people are among us. He explained to them what they^aw in the pictures of life on the castle walls—the doings of men andthe march of events in all the lands of the earth; and often the sonsexpressed the wish that they could be present at all the great deeds andtake part in them; and their father then told them that out in theworld it was difficult and toilsome—that the world was not quite whatit appeared to them as they looked forth upon it from their beauteoushome. He spoke to them of the true, the beautiful,
. Stories for the household . rstood ; but these were just as clever asmost grown-up people are among us. He explained to them what they^aw in the pictures of life on the castle walls—the doings of men andthe march of events in all the lands of the earth; and often the sonsexpressed the wish that they could be present at all the great deeds andtake part in them; and their father then told them that out in theworld it was difficult and toilsome—that the world was not quite whatit appeared to them as they looked forth upon it from their beauteoushome. He spoke to them of the true, the beautiful, and the good, andtold them that these three held together in the world, and that underthe pressure they had to endure they became hardened into a preciousstone, clearer than the water of the diamond—a jewel whose splendourhad value with God, whose brightness outshone everything, and whichwas the so-called Stone of the \Vise. He told them how men couldattain by investigation to the knowledge of the existence of God, and. THE BOOK OF TECTH. that through men themselves one could attain to the certainty that sucha jewel as the Stone of the Wise existed. This narration would haveexceeded the perception of other children, but these children under-stood it, and at length other children, too, will learn to comprehend itsmeaning. They questioned their father concerning the true, the beautiful, andthe good; and he explained it to them, told them many things, and toldthem also that God, when He made man out of the dust of the earth,gave five kisses to His work— fiery kisses, heart kisses—which we nowcall the five senses. Through these the true, the beautiful, and thegood is seen, perceived, and understood; through these it is valued,protected, and furthered. Five senses have been given corporeally andmentally, inwardly and outwardly, to body and soul. The children reflected deeply upon all these things ; they meditatedupon them by day and by night. Then the eldest of the brothe
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