THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES
let stone record in animated figures the dark legends of the
North, brightened by the marvellous gilded apologues of the
Qur’an !
Let the East adore Jesus Christ in its mosques, and on
the minarets ofa new Santa Sophia let the cross rise in the
midst of the crescent !4
Let Mohammed set woman free to give to the true believer
the houris which he has so long dreamt of, and let the martyrs
of the Saviour teach chaste caresses to the beautiful angels of
Mohammed!
The whole earth, reclothed with the rich adornments
which all the arts have embroidered for her, will no longer be
anything but a magnificent temple, of which man shall be the
eternal priest.
All that was true, all that was beautiful, all that was sweet
in the past centuries, will live once more glorified in this
transfiguration of the world.
And the beautiful form will remain inseparable from the
true idea, as the body will one day be inseparable from the
soul, when the soul, come to its own power, will have made
itself a body in its own image.
That will be the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth, and the
body will be the temple of the soul, as the regenerated
universe will be the body of God.
And bodies and souls, and form and thought, and the
whole universe, will be the light, the word, and the permanent
and visible revelation of God. Amen. So be it.
1 It is amusing to remark that this very symbol is characteristic of the Greek
Church which he has been attacking. Levi should have visited Moscow.—
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