S p i r i t ua l i t y S t u d i e s 5 - 2 Fa l l 2 0 1 9 6 5 Petr Pavlík But his horse walked around all eager, hoofing and snorting as if sniffing another adventure. The knight was alert, watching his gaze curiously. The horse was staring at one darker place in the sky where stars were missing. “There must be a terrible loneliness,” the knight realized, “such a desolate, dreary void.” He rubbed his eyes and looked even deeper into the celestial abyss. “Well, there’s a tiny star in the centre of it, just as if to revive that dark place.” The horse nodded at it, as if already knowing in advance what it was going to happen. Slowly, the knight grew accustomed to wondrous things happening in heaven, noble and mysterious. It started with that very horse: In front of his eyes he covered himself with a dark blue velvet shawl with silver trim. The knight, to his amazement, found that his spear had turned into a long silver thread, stretching somewhere into a dizzying abyss. Now he held not a shield in his hand, but the body of a lute, and his sword turned into its neck. He was surprised and didn’t understand anything, especially what made him start playing the lute, and then begin to sing: He sang a romance about a no-one’s land where the sunshine disappears, so that the stars may come out in the night of love, about beautiful princesses and their hidden chambers, about brave knights fulfilling them their most secret wishes. And as this romance flowed from his lips, the silver thread of his spear wrapped itself around his body, drawing him with gentle but irresistible force to the abandoned star. As he approached, a new, festive garment, such as he had never worn before, was gradually woven from the wrapped thread around his body. It was a long, shiny flowing cloak with red decoration that revealed his manly muscular chest. “What happened to me? I’m here suddenly without all my weapons, which I’ve always relied on so much, with my chest bare, utterly delivered to that mysterious, distant power. This is how everyone can beat me!” However, as a true knight, he was not frightened. Deep in his heart he even looked forward to not missing a new adventure. Chapter Three As he embraced the abandoned star, she turned in his arms in a blazing, beloved sun. The unknown star was approaching fast. She was so beautiful and so attractive that the knight could keep his eyes on her. A crown of every colour he had ever known, and even had never seen before, blazed around her head. She seemed to take in turns the gleam of all the gems of the world, moving in an unknown dance. Gradually, however, he realized that the star was declining from his direction. The mysterious thread that had drawn him to her was already burned in her heat, and he had no choice but to approach her by himself. Though he attracted her naturally with his own weight, she seemed afraid of the tremendous speed of his winged horse. But she didn’t run away, she just dodged him, until they started dancing around.
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