The Beautiful Things

Once a man unearthed in his field a marble statue of great beauty. And he took it to a collector who loved all  beautiful things and offered it to him for sale and collector bought it for a large price. And they parted. And as the man walked home with his money he thought , and he said to himself  “How much life this money means! How can anyone give all this for a dead carved stone buried and undreamed of i n the earth for  thousand years?”

And now the collector was looking at his statue, and he was thinking, and he said to himself,  “what beauty! What life! The dream of what a soul! –and fresh wit the sleep of a thousand years. How can any one give all this for money, dead and dreamless?”   The above story  is taken from the Forerunners  which cosists of parables dealing with  the dual nature of man.