Which town?

Both spoke and acted in Her name and claimed Her support – one Her scribe and the other Her architect.

Both, navigating well above the fastidious average, have been creators.

S., with his prose of incantation like a constant flame calling the truth of the future, by virtue of the privileged relationship She sustained with him over many years, remains for a number of Her children their representative at Her feet and Her representative among them – like a scout and elder brother in the evolutionary labor. R., visionary of forms and harmonies vibrant with invokation, generator of creative vitality, continues to inspire adepthood and emulation.

Both will have played a large role in Her city, even while they also engendered or aroused intense conflicts.

But these very conflicts are teachings, contained within Her presence and rich with conscious growth and progress.

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No other disciple of Hers will have had such influence on the destiny of Her city and, with their departure from this visible material reality, no model remains, no living reference. No individual has the necessary stature to weigh in any way – by exemple, by words or in silence – on the choices and orientations of this collectivity.

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