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| original title = Casting Off | | original title = Casting Off | ||
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| publications = [[Lucifer/Vol3|''Lucifer'', vol. 3]], no. 15, November 1888, pp. 256-257 | | publications = [[Lucifer/Vol3|''Lucifer'', vol. 3]], no. 15, November 1888, pp. 256-257 | ||
| read links = [[Lucifer/Vol3/Text|Electronic journal edition in Teopedia]] | | read links = [[Lucifer/Vol3/Text|Electronic journal edition in Teopedia]] | ||
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| origin = English: C. Carter Blake, ''Casting Off'' | | origin = English: C. Carter Blake, ''Casting Off'' | ||
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If King Henry VIII., the much-married King of England, stopped in some of his proceedings for divorce, or at least was stopped by the ecclesiastical authorities at the first of his acts, and was warned by them that his divorce with Catherine of Aragon was contrary to the laws of God, and could hardly be made by any sort of ''modus vivendi'' to fit in with the laws of men, King Milan of Servia has certainly sent in a greater amount of tickets to entitle him to a final “distribution of gifts.” | If King Henry VIII., the much-married King of England, stopped in some of his proceedings for divorce, or at least was stopped by the ecclesiastical authorities at the first of his acts, and was warned by them that his divorce with Catherine of Aragon was contrary to the laws of God, and could hardly be made by any sort of ''modus vivendi'' to fit in with the laws of men, King Milan of Servia has certainly sent in a greater amount of tickets to entitle him to a final “distribution of gifts.” | ||
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are deeply applicable to us, and those who are born of us, and then the action of men like King Milan is only a forecast of the future, when the coming race “''Sans Dieu, sans foi, sans loi''” shall preach “the principles of 1789,” “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.” Liberty, each to select his own punishment; Equality, before the throne of some self-invoked infernal power; Fraternity, such as was that of Cain towards Abel. | are deeply applicable to us, and those who are born of us, and then the action of men like King Milan is only a forecast of the future, when the coming race “''Sans Dieu, sans foi, sans loi''” shall preach “the principles of 1789,” “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.” Liberty, each to select his own punishment; Equality, before the throne of some self-invoked infernal power; Fraternity, such as was that of Cain towards Abel. | ||
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Still, for those who do not contemplate decay on a large scale, it is hard to perceive individual instances of blasphemy and immorality, and harder that they should have the sanction of any religious body. | Still, for those who do not contemplate decay on a large scale, it is hard to perceive individual instances of blasphemy and immorality, and harder that they should have the sanction of any religious body. | ||