Aldwinckle, Eric, Letter, [7 December 1944]

Letter, Eric Aldwinckle.
Description: 
Letter to Harry Somers

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Case Study: 
Creative Dialogue Across the Ocean: Eric Aldwinckle’s Letters to Harry Somers
Creator: 
Aldwinckle, Eric
Source: 
letter
Date: 
[7 December 1944]
Place: London
Collection/Fonds: 
Contributer: 
McMaster University Libraries
Rights: 
Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format. Reproduced with the kind permission of Margaret Bridgman.

Identifier: 
00001608-7
Language: 
eng
Type: 
image
Format: 
jpg
Transcript: 

All these things, words, music, colour, are expressions of the man seeking the ideal, the perfect state of happiness and harmony. Some keep it clearly before them, some find glimpses, some find great realities, some fail and find only the bitterness and sorrow, for it is true, like searching for gold it must be panned out of the mud and slough of the river bed and collected painstakingly bit by bit; or it must be rested from the deep earth and rock by great force, when even then there is pulverization to perform and sifting to do. So must the dross surrounding and embedding the heart be pulverised and washed away if we are to find the harmony of the gold of its true nature. Power, knowledge and perfection lie hidden secretly within us. God bless him who knows it. God pity he who doesn't, for how can he seek for something that he does not know is there to be 'discovered'. He is washed down the river of Life. Let us stand firmly against the current with our feet buried in the mud and be master of the search. We must not fail. We must become masters of Earth, water, air and of Fire to fulfill our evolving purpose.
We must succeed
and we shall my friend
Eric