If you love someone, set them free.
I want you. I need you. I love you. Do not be afraid. Be free.
What would you do for your beloved? Would you groom your rival for your beloved’s vow?– Would you teach your rival the keys to your beloved’s transcendent power? Would you save your rival from the flaming maw of Mount Vesuvius?
Is your happiness her success?– To see her rise to the heights of her God given virtue?
Love is sacrifice. True love is freely giving everything you have.
Have you ever read a book so engrossing, so full of wonder and delight, that you must lie still after each chapter in awestruck reverie?
I want Viola. I love Viola. I want Viola to be happy. That is why I must give her away.
The spiritual power of the fast, abstinence, discipline is undeniable.
The sacrifice is maddening, tragic, nearly impossible, but it must be done.
It is the magic of all art.– Sacrifice.
It is the requirement of all great religions.– Sacrifice.
It is the common denominator of all great men.– Sacrifice.
I don’t want to believe. My material body fights and fights to tell me otherwise. My charnal flesh is loathe to admit it, but my soul tells me what’s true. The Holy Spirit tells me so sweetly, that sacrifice is love. Love is sacrifice.
It’s NOT for all men, all men are NOT created equal. Many are called, few are chosen. It’s only for the elect saints of God, the sublime initiates of Love.
I love you. With all my heart and soul. Do not be afraid. Be free.
Why must it be this way? In the darkest hours of the night my love burns for you! I cry aloud, WHY?!
With great wisdom comes great sorrow. The Romans want me dead. The truth is overwhelming. Grief and suffering is NOT to be shared. I love you.
My Father told me in my greatest moments of turmoil, “Life isn’t fair.”
My Father is right. Love is sacrifice.
One of the most profound books I’ve read. Thank you.
Hearken to the sound of providence! My rivals have diminished. The Prince can never win your love. The Englishman is a dolt. Alas! There is time for us after all! Flee with me to the Ionian Isles, “the air carries with it the perfumes of the plains for miles along the blue, translucent deep.” We can share our most solemn treasure! Our connexion is real!
Clarence Limey English Glyndon, you fool! You opposed the great mystic in his admonitions. Entered his secret chamber, doused your temples with his crystal elixir. Now the spectre rides with you, in your lofty pursuit of beauty, art, and knowledge- the ghastly eyes peering out through the myst of time. Never to be sated, always at the millstone, grinding and grinding, gnashing of teeth, you’ll never escape the curse of man!
Viola, your Neapolitan beauty is my everlasting salvation. It is you that I live for, it is you that I long to be with. Sitting beside our orange blossoms, overlooking the white-sailed waters of the Elysium shores. Why did you leave me? With our blessed child, to Paris amongst the tyrants and committees on ‘Public Safety’. You are not safe, I will go to you. And rescue you, with our infant on your breast, all my powers in this life and the next I will give… for you, Viola!
To the Rosicrucian: Are you still living? What happened to your divine order? How did you get defeated so badly? You were supposed to be the truth bearers, initiates of love, but instead your secret society is vaccinated to death, rolling in yon grave with bondage slave mask on your face, a cemetery of putrid bodies crawling from the dirt, replaying the same lie over and over, like a bad dream, except it’s real.
The Rosicrucians have FAILED.
All SECRET SOCIETIES ARE IMPOTENT FAILURES.
33.3 times the coefficient of infinity equals ZERO.
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Notes: Enthusiastic for you.
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Highlight: …Beautiful she was, but of a very uncommon beauty, — a combination, a harmony of opposite attributes. Her hair of a gold richer and purer than that which is seen even in the North; but the eyes, of all the dark, tender, subduing light of more than Italian — almost of Oriental — splendour. The complexion exquisitely fair, but never the same, — vivid in one moment, pale the next. And with the complexion, the expression also varied; nothing now so sad, and nothing now so joyous.
Notes: Introducing Viola.
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Notes: Transforming the darkness.
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Notes: Rise to the occasion.
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Notes: Ancients more sophisticated and better equipped than moderns.
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Notes: The great revolution.
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Notes: Doctor snake is a murderer covid vaccine.
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Notes: Devine agency in human affairs.
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Notes: Wisdom.
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Notes: Essential workers are going to kill me.
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Notes: Finacial responsibility equals zero.
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Notes: Politico kings and techno priests must be perged.
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Notes: Herumph herumph.
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Notes: Leave the cities.
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Notes: Real genius is not semmetrical.
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Notes: A lace silk scarf worn by women over the shoulders.
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Notes: Excellent work.
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Notes: I love you.
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Notes: Face mask for safety.
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Notes: Hi!
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Notes: Hehe
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Notes: Sorrow and love.
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Notes: To all essential workers.
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Notes: The giants are master herbalists.
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Highlight: She was unconscious all the while of her own loveliness. She had thrown aside her hood and veil; her hair, somewhat disordered, fell over the ivory neck which the dress partially displayed; and as her dark eyes swam with grateful tears, and her cheek flushed with its late excitement, the god of light and music himself never, amidst his Arcadian valleys, wooed, in his mortal guise,
Notes: Viola!
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Notes: I’m sorry. I love you. And you deserve this thoughtful warning.
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Highlight: Disabuse her of any caprice for me. I am a bird ever on the wing.”
Notes: on the wings of love.
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Notes: Arrogant and domineering.
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Notes: Impossible to stop or prevent.
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Notes: Good question.
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Notes: Your opinions are like angels. Everybody’s got one. Hehe
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Notes: Viola!
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Notes: Good question.
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Notes: Yes.
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Notes: Rose cross rosetta stone.
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Notes: First law of nature.
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Notes: Equality is a lie.
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Notes: Corresponding language of God.
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Notes: Good question.
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Notes: Create new worlds of existence.
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Notes: Wisdom.
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Notes: I love you, Eve.
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Notes: Viola!
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Notes: Very bad. Deplorable.
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Notes: Frenzied artist.
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Cast off the earthly burden of the Real;
High from this cramped and dungeoned being, spring
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Notes: Ideal poem
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Notes: Love is faith and sacrifice.
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Notes: Let’s visit.
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Notes: Our conciousness creates the material world. Not vice versa…
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Notes: Holy star. My true love.
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Notes: Be ye seperate. The matrix is a deception.
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Notes: Wisdom
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Notes: If you love somebody, set them free.
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Notes: The sacrifice of love.
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Notes: Human love is a poison-flower.
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Notes: False evidence appearing real. FEAR
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Notes: Visuvius!
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Notes: I imagine you on a gleaming precipice of light.
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Notes: I love you.
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Notes: I love you.
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Notes: Fly with me.
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Highlight: Viola, weep not, unless thou givest me the holy right to kiss away thy tears!
Notes: Romance
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Highlight: In the laws which regulate the universe, it is decreed that nothing wicked can long endure.
Notes: USA LLC.
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Highlight: Earth holds but few to whom Nature has given the qualities that can bear the ordeal.
Notes: Endure
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Highlight: When you told her you loved her, — when you clasped her to your breast, you renounced all power to foresee her future lot, or protect her from harm. Henceforth to her you are human, and human only. How know you, then, to what you may be tempted; how know you what her curiosity may learn and her courage brave?
Notes: Love, sacrifice, courage.
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Highlight: sirocco
Notes: Hot wind.
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Highlight: Be still, and learn the fate that awaits the wicked!
Notes: Glorious!
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Highlight: Men desire four things in life, — love, wealth, fame, power. The first I cannot give thee, the rest are at my disposal. Select which of them thou wilt, and let us part in peace.
Notes: I choose love!
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Highlight: it was along one sapphire track of moonlight that the frail vessel bore away the lovers.
Notes: Let us depart this place in peace.
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Highlight: Peace to the Brave.
Notes: Sacred watchword. Secret phrase.
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Highlight: For he who seeks to DISCOVER must first reduce himself into a kind of abstract idealism, and be rendered up, in solemn and sweet bondage, to the faculties which CONTEMPLATE and IMAGINE.
Notes: Imagine being w you.
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Highlight: Tritemius “On Secret Things and Secret Spirits.
Notes: Ask Circe
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Highlight: Spenser, “Faerie Queene,
Notes: Ask Circe
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Highlight: thou must be master also over the Flesh and the Blood, — over Love and Vanity, Ambition and Hate.
Notes: Fast. Pray. Repent.
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Highlight: Ah, Excellency, while we are young, nothing like adventure, — except love, wine, and laughter!
Notes: Shall we open a bottle of wine?
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Highlight: seraphic
Notes: Resembling an angel.
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Highlight: fibula,
Notes: A brooch or clasp. She wore a silver fibula.
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Highlight: See Dr. Holland’s “Travels to the Ionian Isles,”
Notes: Ask Circe
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Highlight: Once thou didst desire a fairy-land, and now thou seemest so contented with common life.”
Notes: Love and contentment.
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Highlight: Is it common life, then, to love, and to live with the one we love? My true fairy-land is won! Speak to me of no other.
Notes: True love!
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Highlight: insensate
Notes: Lacking physical sensation.
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Highlight: like pilgrims in a trackless desert, overawed by the stillness of their solitude, and appalled by the absence of a goal.
Notes: Appalled by absence of goal. Interesting.
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Highlight: Either must I be drawn down to the nature of the beloved, or hers must be lifted to my own.
Notes: We can meet in the middle.
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Highlight: Knowledge and atheism are incompatible. To know Nature is to know that there must be a God.
Notes: Agreed.
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Highlight: that, but for love, there were no civilisation, no music, no poetry, no beauty, no life beyond the brute’s.
Notes: For love.
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Highlight: Until we can be all spirit, the tranquillity of solitude must be indifference.
Notes: Tranquil solitude.
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Highlight: Has the wisdom of ages brought me no happier hours than those common to the shepherd and the herdsman, with no world beyond their village, no aspiration beyond the kiss and the smile of home?”
Notes: Immortal happiness of the commoners.
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Highlight: Thou must endure the influence of the elixir thou hast inhaled; thou must wrestle with the spectre thou hast invoked!”
Notes: Have mercy!
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Highlight: fasting is as full of spectres as a field of battle.
Notes: The fast communes w spectres and imps.
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Highlight: With a full belly, signor, we are at peace with all the world.
Notes: Not to fast.
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Highlight: Yes; the devil always tempts the empty stomach. To covet, to hate, to thieve, to rob, and to murder, — these are the natural desires of a man who is famishing.
Notes: Not to fast.
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Highlight: He had no romantic ideas of love; but he was too sensible a man not to know that a wife should be a companion,
Notes: Sensibility.
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Highlight: If we have faculties, what is their use, but to sell them to advantage!
Notes: Practical life. Hehe
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Highlight: he desired to be rich and respectable, — and to make at least ten per cent for his money!
Notes: At the very least!
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Highlight: you never alarm me when you speak: only when you are silent!
Notes: !
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Highlight: the Son of the Starbeam! Why is Adon-Ai deaf to thy solemn call? It comes not, — the luminous and delightsome Presence!
Notes: The mighty one.
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Highlight: Only where no cloud of the passion and the flesh veils the eye of the Serene Intelligence can the Sons of the Starbeam glide to man.
Notes: Shun all human affection for ultimate power.
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Highlight: thou art not my vanquisher, but my slave!
Notes: How to speak to mystic plasma god.
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Highlight: perfidious
Notes: Deceitful and untrustworthy.
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Highlight: Clarence Glyndon.
Notes: Englishman limey.
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Highlight: Dost thou not know that Fear and Distrust, once sown in the heart of Love, spring up from the seed into a forest that excludes the stars?
Notes: Fear and distrust.
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Highlight: She inhaled the odour, she laved her temples with the liquid,
Notes: Elixir of life.
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Highlight: Mantell’s eloquent and delightful work, entitled “The
Wonders of Geology,
Notes: Ask Circe.
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Highlight: To be an object of terror to the enemies of our country, — THAT is noble; but to be an object of terror to the good, the patriotic, to those one loves and reveres, — THAT is the most terrible of human tortures at least, to a susceptible and honest heart!
Notes: Susceptible and honest revolution.
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Highlight: tumbrils;
Notes: Cart used to carry the condemned to execution. French revolution.
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Highlight: His object was to inspire a proxy-Brutus; and in the centre of that inflammable population this was no improbable hope.
Notes: Agreed.
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Highlight: Hovering between two lives, the Real and Ideal, dwells the life of music and the stage.
Notes: I love you.
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Highlight: volition
Notes: Faculty or power of using ones will.
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Highlight: Talent unhonoured is talent at war with men.
Notes: Agreed.
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Highlight: No state is ever more in danger than when the talent that should be consecrated to peace has no occupation but political intrigue or personal advancement.
Notes: Repent.
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Highlight: and no man — no! not the richest and proudest magnate of the land, has so great an interest in peace and order, has so high and essential a stake in the well being of society, as the poet and the artist
Notes: No art in revolution.
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Highlight: And in this grand conception of the poet lies the secret of the true Theurgia,
Notes: Divine magic.
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Highlight: Away with your gloomy fantasies of sorcerer and demon! — the soul can aspire only to the light; and even the error of our lofty knowledge was but the forgetfulness of the weakness, the passions, and the bonds which the death we so vainly conquered only can purge away!
Notes: Holy magic of love!
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Highlight: From Iamblichus, “On the Mysteries,
Notes: Ask Circe
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Highlight: We are the types of the two essences of what is imperishable,— ‘ART, that enjoys; and SCIENCE, that contemplates!
Notes: Zanoni vs Majnour. Art and science.
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Highlight: Come what may, to Virtue I will cling?’
Notes: Good lyric and key.
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Highlight: faith in something wiser, happier, diviner, than we see on earth! — the artist calls it the Ideal, — the priest, Faith. The Ideal and Faith are one and the same.
Notes: Faith and the ideal.
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Highlight: 10th of Thermidor.
Notes: Slaughter the tyrants on this day. Free the blessed innocent.
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Highlight: Committee of Public Safety…
Notes: Arrest all covid tyrants now.
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Highlight: The reign of Terror shall endure!
Notes: Never!
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Highlight: The herd, in every country, side with success; and the rats run from the falling tower.
Notes: Goyim and rats.
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Highlight: The soul that loves can dare all things. Shadow, I defy thee, and compel!”
Notes: Shadow! I defy thee!
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Highlight: See the ‘Life of Schiller.
Notes: Ask circe.
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Highlight: At last I recognise the true ordeal and the real victory.
Notes: Supreme Righteous Victory
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Highlight: Knowest thou not that our laws are nothing without the physical force of the National Guard,
Notes: National Guard currently patroling cities with heavy weapons.
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Highlight: In the Reign of Terror those most terrified were its kings.
Notes: Beware ye kings.
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Highlight: THEY were the chosen citizens, the men of virtue, the favourites of Power, the ministers of Law! Such thy black caprices, O thou, the ever-shifting and calumnious, — Human Judgment!
Notes: Essential workers are finished.
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Highlight: the hope of a child-like soul wraps the air in light, and the innocence of unquestioning Belief covers the grave with blossoms.
Notes: Faith.
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Highlight: It is not sunlight on the water; it is a hymn chanted to the nymph who hearkens and awakes below.
Notes: be free.
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