A re-telling of the true 12th century love story of Heloise and Abelard. Abelard is a great philosopher and theologian who has taken, like many academics of the time, a vow of celibacy. When he is hired as a tutor for the brilliant and beautiful Hel...
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"Astrolabe, my son..."*
Someday, Abelard will leave his son a letter. It will contain everything, in its lines of verse, he would have taught him if only he could have raised him. It will be Abelard's only gift to Astrolabe: it will a guide for the young boy, to navigate through his life - to live in the wisdom of Abelard's mistakes so that Astrolabe need not make the same ones.
"By the fruit, not the leaves, of apples is every man fed
and meaning must be preferred to words..."
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"An abundance of words exists where there is not an abundance of meaning,
and it is agreed that one who wanders about multiplies the ways..."
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"just like the sun, the wise man remains consistent with himself.
Now here, now there, the blind mind of the fool wanders.
The prudent mind fashions a steady step everywhere..."
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"Pay attention to the words of teachers, the deeds of the good;
may your breast ever burn with this kind of greed..."
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"... Let not your glory but the Lord's be sought, my son
you will not have lived for yourself, but for others, or rather for God..."
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"No-one may be wise through the keenness of great genius:
rather morals and a good life make him so.
In deeds, not in words, does wisdom declare itself;
grace is granted to the good alone..."
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*Selected Lines from Abelard's "Poem for Astrolabe"
