ABSTRACT
The soul in quest of pleasure encounters the divine beauty which appears here below in the form of the beauty of the world, as a snare for the soul. By the power of this snare, God seizes the soul in spite of itself. This is the grain of mustard seed to which Christ compares the Kingdom of Heaven, the smallest of the seeds, but which later shall become that tree wherein the birds of heaven alight. This story also represents, in my opinion, the quest of man by God. It contains, moreover, the two moments of God's capture of man. The first takes place in the night of the unconscious, while man's consciousness is still entirely instinctive and his humanity is hidden within him; as soon as God would draw him into the light, man flees, disappears far from God, forgets Him, and prepares for an adulterous union with the flesh.
