Blaise Pascal The Thought of Blaise Pascal: Translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier
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At his death, a worn piece of parchment was found sewed in his clothing, close to his heart, written in his own hand:
“Le Mémorial”
This year of Grace 1654, Monday, November 23…
From about half past ten at night, to about half after midnight,
Fire.
God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob,
Not of the philosophers and the wise.
Security, security. Feeling, joy, peace.
God of Jesus Christ
Deum meum et Deum vestrum.
(My God and your God.)
Thy God shall be my God.
Forgetfulness of the world and of all save God.
He can be found only in the ways taught
in the Gospel.
Greatness of the human soul.
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee,
but I have known thee.
Joy, joy, joy, tears of joy.
I have separated myself from him.
Dereliquerunt me fontem aquae vivae.
(They have abandoned me, the source of the living waters)
My God, why hast thou forsaken me?
That I be not separated from thee eternally.
This is life eternal: That they might know thee
the only true God, and him whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ,
Jesus Christ,
Jesus Christ.
I have separated myself from him; I have fled, renounced, crucified him
May I never be separated from him.
He maintains himself in me only in the ways taught
in the Gospel.
Renunciation total and sweet.