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…s joy, and peace, and glory ? Is_ ours the gloomy asceticism of the Christian, and the Buddhist and the Hindu? Are we walking in eternal fear lest some “sin” should cut us off from “ grace” ? By no means. “Be ye goodly therefore: dress ye all in fine apparel t ri foods and drink sweet wines, and wines that foam ! Pat ae ane fill and will of love as ye will, when, where, and with whom ye will! But always unto me.” a : This is the only point to bear in mind, that every act must be a ‘ritual, an act of worship, a sacrament. Live as the kings and p…
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…And how are we to live meanwhile ? “It is a lie, this folly against itself_Be strong, man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture : fear not that any God shall deny thee for this.” Again and again, in words like these, He sees the expansion and the development of the soul through joy. ; Here is the Calendar of our Church: “But ye, O my people, rise up and awake! Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy and beauty!” (Remember that all acts of love and pleasure are rituals, must be rituals.) “There are rituals of the elements and feasts…
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… of a drug-fiend or a lawyer. All you have to do is to be yourself, to do your will, and to rejoice. “Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart?” He says again: ‘‘ Where I am, these are not.” There is much more of the same kind ; enough has been quoted already to make all clear. But there is a further injunction. “Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal: refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight-and-ninety rules of art; if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there…