Such persons are in themselves the principles of art; they bear
within them a mirror which reflects nature in her slightest manifestations.
Well, so it is with me; I have within me a mirror before which the moral
nature, with its causes and its effects, appears and is reflected. Entering
thus into the consciousness of others I am able to divine both the future
and the past * * * though what I have said does not define the gift of
Specialism, for to conceive the nature of that gift we must possess it."
This describes in terms similar to those employed by others who possess
cosmic consciousness, the results of this inner light, which Seraphita
calls a "mirror."
And yet, with this seemingly exhaustive and lucid exposition of the effects
of Illumination, Seraphita declares that "to conceive the nature of this
gift we must possess it."
Balzac further comments upon what he terms this gift of Specialism, which
is cosmic consciousness or illumination, thus:
"The specialist is necessarily the loftiest expression of man--the link
which connects the visible to the superior worlds.
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