Excerpts From <em>Seuphor And Natalie</em> And <em>The Word Accomplished</em>

Excerpts from Natalia d’Arbeloff’s The Gabriel Books have appeared regularly in THE SUN. The words and pictures on these pages are from Seuphor and Natalie — extracts from letters written to Natalia from the artist Michel Seuphor — and The Word Accomplished — extracts from the book of the same title by A.B. Christopher, accompanied by Natalia’s etchings. A.B. Christopher, a film-maker, publisher, novelist, and philosopher, is a pseudonym for Natalia’s father, Alexander d’Arbeloff. For information about these books, write Natalia d’Arbeloff, 6 Cliff Villas, London NW1 9AL.

— Ed.

Above all: If you feel the need to create you must put it before all the rest. Not abandon the rest, this would be a serious mistake. But make all the rest serve the essential, so that the eating and drinking, the obligations and choices, the games and loves are all at the service of that one Love. Let all the activities of your day be as so many flowers which the bee fertilizes while at the same time finding nourishment therein.

Seuphor à Natalie
[Extracts of letters from Michel Seuphor to Natalia d’Arbeloff. Illustrated by NdA.]

Do not blame your brother for an unloving action,
Try to cancel it by performing a loving action
in its place.
Do not preach moral principles: sow only
deeds of love. From there, all the rest will
follow as if by enchantment.
Seek no more when love is accomplished, for
there is no more to seek.
Go to another place where love is still
imprisoned and deliver it to the holder of
the key.

From The Word Accomplished by A.B. Christopher,
illustrated with etchings by Natalia d’Arbeloff.

What can you do to find your purpose?
Should you look within yourself to find yet
another self?
Should you look to another person and try to
find yourself there?
I tell you, Man:
Look for love, and love will lead you to
your purpose.

From The Word Accomplished by A.B. Christopher,
illustrated with etchings by Natalia d’Arbeloff.

Search not for your enemies, but only for your
friends. You have no enemies: if you don’t know
they love you, it is that they don’t know
you love them.
Tell them of your love and you will see them
answering with love.
What is an enemy? Is it someone who does not
comply with your wishes or your plans? And
whose plans are right or wrong, yours or his?
I tell you: You are all partners, all brothers,
so tell each other your plans and wishes.
If your plan is to love, no one should ignore
it and all can share it with you. If you are
plotting against love, you want to keep it
secret, and thus your brother becomes your
enemy.