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Tauler, whom an admiring contemporary once called 'the holiest of God's children now living on the earth, could yet say of the higher elevation of the Christian life that, 'where this comes to pass, outward works become of no moment. What wonder that the fanatical Beghards, or Brethren of the Free Spirit, against whom he contended with all his energies, should seek to confuse his principles with theirs, and assert that, having attained the higher state, they were not under subjection to moral commandments?
It is no fault of mine that the lot of woman is so contracted and miserable that she must bind herself in order to become free!" "Only as a means?" asked he; "the holiest tie on earth only as a means, and for what? For a pitiable and ephemeral chase after happiness, which you call honour and freedom. Poor, deceived Sara! Are you so misled, so turned aside from the right?
But if Jesus Christ intends to say that He has established a society of followers who will not fall either into vice or error, these words are absolutely false, as there is in Christendom no sect, no society, and no church which is not full of errors and vices, especially the Roman Church, although it claims to be the purest and the holiest of all.
He served those gods now, yet he revered the memory of the Christian, Vivia Perpetua, as of one of the holiest of women. Timokles ventured no further words. Pentaur summoned a slave, and committed to his care the young Christian. The memory of Vivia Perpetua might pierce the merchant's soul, but would not avail for Timokles' release.
Nothing particular took place to-day's âyed, except every one being dressed in his best clothes, and most of the youth having on something new. It is the same with the Jews of Mogador on the feast of Passover. The Sanctuaries hoist the holy colours of their religion, beautiful vermilion, and yellow, and green; these are their holiest and most-loved colours. The slaves danced and sang all day long.
Would they hang this Gobelin of her brain along the walls of memory, and turn to it tenderly, reading reverently its ciphers and its illuminations; or would it be rent and ridiculed, and trampled under foot? This book was a shrine to which her purest thoughts, her holiest aspirations travelled like pilgrims, offering the best of which her nature was capable.
In the holiest and the most trivial things alike we find it penetrating everywhere even in church, and at her prayers, when the pretty penitent, rising from her lengthy orison, lifts her eyes and looks about her furtively to see who has noticed her self-abasement and to whom her picturesque piety has commended itself.
Wherefore by the flesh and blood of Christ we enter into the holiest; through the veil, saith he, that is to say, his flesh.
The unjust decision of a civil court in Baghdád, instigated by Shí’ah enemies, in ‘Iráq, and the decree issued by a still more redoubtable adversary in Russia had, moreover, robbed the Faith, on the one hand, of one of its holiest centers of pilgrimage, and denied it, on the other, the use of its first House of Worship, initiated by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and erected in the course of His ministry.
Is his life a whole; the days as threads and as touches; the life, the well-woven garment, the well-painted picture? Which of two sacrifices has he offered the one so acceptable to the powers of dark worlds, the other so acceptable to powers of bright ones that of soul to body, or that of body to soul? Has he slain what was holiest in him to obtain gifts from Fashion or Mammon?
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