Miguel Ángel Fuentes – Duc in Altum!

Description

There are two sorts of flying birds that symbolize two
sorts of souls: the chicken and the eagle. The flight of
the chicken is low, make noises, kicks up dust, and causes
chaos in the chicken coop. It is a symbol of the souls that
simply crawl, with horizontal ideas and short-sighted
careers. They might produce a lot of noise and provide
something to talk about, but they are almost immediately
forgotten. When the dirt and the feathers that their
rampage raised up fall to the ground, no one remembers
the chicken’s flight; it was inconsequential and passed
unnoticed in the history of the chicken coop. The souls
that set down goals that don’t go beyond the shadows
of their noses will pass without leaving any mark; they
live off conquests that are as perishable as those of our
chicken. The eagle’s flight is challenging, lordly, fleet, and
unattainable. The eagle’s sight can be fixed on the sun,
and to contemplate the fullness of the scenery from the
mountain peaks to the clouds. The eagle plays with the
winds, glides, throws itself into a dive, and turns to raise
itself up swiftly. From its heights, it sees the seas as if
they were puddles, and the lakes and rivers uncover their
secrets for it as their waters become transparent. It is a
bird that hunts and that fights. It is the symbol of the soul
that feels cramped in by the earth, and relieved in heaven;
it is the symbol of the soul that needs distant and difficult
goals…

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