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48: O ye loyal servants of the Ancient Beauty! In every … |
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O ye loyal servants of the Ancient Beauty! In every
cycle and dispensation, the feast hath been favoured and
loved, and the spreading of a table for the lovers of God
hath been considered a praiseworthy act. This is especially
the case today, in this dispensation beyond compare, this
most generous of ages, when it is highly acclaimed, for it is
truly accounted among such gatherings as are held to
worship and glorify God. Here the holy verses, the heavenly
odes and laudations are intoned, and the heart is quickened,
and carried away from itself.
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The primary intent is to kindle these stirrings of the
spirit, but at the same time it follows quite naturally that
those present should partake of food, so that the world of
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the body may mirror the spirit’s world, and flesh take on
the qualities of soul; and just as the spiritual delights are here
in profusion, so too the material delights.
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