It is a cold-blooded animal that can stand the fire and remains calm through it all. It is the ‘stone of wisdom.’

Like the snake, it has ‘absolute wisdom,’ unrelated to the environment.

Your relatives can be whatever they want to be, but without you!

Your letter has reached me at a time which was the tail end of a series of disappointments … I had to understand that I was unable to make the people see what I am after. I am practically alone. There are a few who understand this and that, but almost nobody sees the whole … I have failed in my foremost task: to open people’s eyes to the fact that man has a soul, and that there is a buried treasure in the field and that our religion and philosophy are in a lamentable state …