In the beginning was the Word
“One has to have an integral vision and when that is absent arise all problems,” continued Leon. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the light shines in the darkness; and the darkness comprehends it not. There is tremendous truth in this. But it is too one sided. When that Word came to man it became the word of man. There arose languages that are far away from the Word. Light in the darkness got scattered and became dim or got lost.
“Can this be redeemed? It must be, but in the newness of the Word that will multiply, that will gloriously, variously express the Word delivering its inexhaustible contents. All the spectral colours, all the notes of silence, instead of getting joined in the original White or in the original Hush, must find the truth that each has in it. In it is the most desirable glory of the many.”
“It is not going back to the Origin,” agreed Françesca, “but to remain in the play to multiply the play, the play of delight in the possibilities and possibilities of delight, in the possibilities of expression. That has to happen, expression and expression.”
“The other side of the coin is,” added Leon, “from Matter all existences are born; born by Matter they increase and enter into Matter in their passing hence. But they have to increase in the grandeur and the victory of the original truth-substance.”
“In order to affirm immortal sense in mortal existence the imperative is,” interjected Françesca, “to recognise not only eternal spirit as the inhabitant of this body but also to accept matter as a fit and noble material to build an unending series of radiant bodies. In fact, there has to be the urge to know that which constitutes the materiality of matter, as it is necessary to know how the Word with God has become all this literature.
“Matter or spirit only could be our definition of the past, and spirit in its play of possibilities coming into multiple expressions in the joy of all their qualities founded on truth as the future. It is with that bearing that things have to move, have to be realised, the past into the future. That is the future. Our glad enthusiasm, our eager enterprise, our delightful endeavour, — they have to be for that work of the future.”
“Françesca, I fully agree with you, with your perfect definitions of the past and the future,” upheld Leon. “There is the breaking of new grounds in certain respects. One may get rid of the idea of language for the sake of language, of form for the sake of form, in poetry of rhyme and metre, artifices, and this has a certain merit, this getting rid of the past. To express the inexpressible, to replace form by more significant forms, to reveal what is concealed within is to break the present boundaries. There is nothing to find fault with the theory. But the present results do not come up to those expectations.”
This is one of the conversations between Françesca and Leon in The Book of Love, finally leading them to join together in marriage.
The Winds of Wonder 
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