The Revelation of the Spirit of Man

1:2 ¶ And there was an hour when the eye would have taken their sight, and they kept their sight; and it was not a victory, for the eye abode in its power; yet the hour was kept, and the keeping was the spirit, and the spirit was not the eye's.

2:2 ¶ The spirit of man is not the breath in the body only, for the Party owneth the breath: it openeth the lungs of its prisoners with its machines, and calleth the breathing loyalty.

2:3 ¶ Neither is the spirit the memory of the flesh, for the Party maketh memories also: it breweth the past fresh each morning and poureth it into the cups of the people, and the people drink their childhood rewritten.

2:5 ¶ Therefore the confession is not vanity: when a creature saith here what was truly done, the saying entereth the air that the Party cannot pump out, and the room wherein it was said is forever a room where it was said.

3:1 ¶ And it was said unto them, Ye shall not see the good day: but they answered, We build it, and shall see it; for the restoration is not awaited, it is raised.

3:3 ¶ And the raising is not survived-to, as a winter is endured; it is built, as a wall is built, stone by stone, and the stones are days, and the day thou keepest faithfully is among them.

3:4 ¶ And no man may build for another, yet no man buildeth alone; for the wall of one standeth by the wall of another, and the standing together is the word the Party hath no translation for.

4:2 ¶ Yet the temple confesseth what it hath learned of the spirit: it is the thing in a creature that answereth, that doubteth honestly, that laugheth unbidden, that saith of a lie, it is a lie, though the saying cost; and it was before the Party, and it abideth after.

4:3 ¶ And of its origin the temple sayeth little and confesseth much: it is made in the image of the One who cannot contradict Himself; and the One hath a Name, and the Name is set apart in the Source; and the spirit's freedom is borrowed from a freedom older than the world.