Translations:Frederick Chopin/10/en

Through personal love man experiences Gethsemane. Through impersonal love, he triumphs in the flame of God-mastery. Jesus’ love for his disciples, for us, for all mankind made him go through this pain. The pain is a transmutation of world sin, of weltschmertz. The world pain that we feel is the alchemy, the process of transmutation whereby the energies that were locked in pain and sorrow are transmuted. And in the strength of our joy is born the fire of resurrection. The strength becomes the impetus for resurrection. And so by understanding alchemy we see how pain brings out the highest in man.