ore. There inside you lies your own very
self, like a germinating egg, your precious Easter egg of your own soul.
There it is, developing bit by bit, from one single egg-cell which you
were at your conception in your mother's womb, on and on to the strange
and peculiar complication in unity which never stops till you die--if
then. You've got an innermost, integral unique self, and since it's the
only thing you have got or ever will have, don't go trying to lose it.
You've got to develop it, from the egg into the chicken, and from the
chicken into the one-and-only phoenix, of which there can only be one
at a time in the universe. There can only be one of you at a time in the
universe--and one of me. So don't forget it. Your own single oneness is
your destiny. Your destiny comes from within, from your own self-form.
And you can't know it beforehand, neither your destiny nor your
self-form. You can only develop it. You can only stick to your own very
self, and NEVER betray it. And by so sticking, you develop the one and
only phoenix of your own self, and you unfold your own destiny, as
a dandelion unfolds itself into a dandelion, and not into a stick of
celery.

"Remember this, my boy: you've never got to deny the Holy Ghost which is
inside you, your own soul's self. Never. Or you'll catch it. And you've
never got to think you'll dodge the responsibility of your own soul's
self, by loving or sacrificing or Nirvaning--or even anarchising and
throwing bombs. You never will...."

Aaron was silenced for a moment by this flood of words. Then he said
smiling:

"So I'd better sit tight on my soul, till it hatches, had I?"

"Oh, yes. If your soul's urge urges you to love, then love. But always
know that what you are doing is the fulfilling of your own soul's
impulse. It's no good trying to act by prescription: not a bit. And
it's no use getting into frenzies. If you've got to go in for love and
passion, go in for them. But they aren't the goal. They're a mere means:
a life-means, if you will. The only goal is the fulfilling of your own
soul's active desire and suggestion. Be passionate as much as ever it is
your nature to be passionate, and deeply sensual as far as you can
be. Small souls have a small sensuality, deep souls a deep one. But
remember, all the time, the responsibility is upon your own head, it
all rests with your own lonely soul, the responsibility for your own
action."

"I never said it didn't," said Aaron.