essence

Dear Marcelo, times change, but not all essence is lost. Things change! Subtly, furtively, like the hours of day and night. When we least realize it, night falls, day dawns. Don't be naive or trust in all good faith. You don't regret your mistakes and successes; you would have been burned alive in front of a large audience. The Inquisition, Nazism, despotism—everything that was once sin—now presents itself as virtue. They change their guise, their nomenclature changes, their colors change, their forms change, their images change, their descriptions change, and thus they are allowed to persist in essence.   Change hands. Essences remain in the simulacrum. Don't give up; all essence also remains in the divine and sacred virtues.

The shadow of darkness obscures the points of light, but never extinguishes them.