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Then followed a number of rulers who were not lucky enough to meet with Cosmo Versal's approval, and when Smith read: "Alexander V, Emperor of all the Russias," the big head was violently shaken, and its owner exclaimed: "There will be many Russians in the ark, for tyranny has been like a lustration to that people; but I will carry none of its Romanoff seeds to my new world."
She is so young and so lovely." Alan and Tony strayed to a remote corner of the spacious gardens and came to a pause beside the fountain which leaped and splashed and caught the moonlight in its falling splendor. For a moment neither spoke. Tony bent to dip her fingers in the cool water. She had an odd feeling of needing lustration from something. The man's eyes were upon her.
Mixed marriages are of rarest occurrence, intercourse limited to the conventional and the obligatory. There are historic curses that defy lustration. St. Bartholomew is one of these. I must now say something about the country-folks.
I, the singer, entered into the house strewn with flowers, where stood upright the emerald drum, where awaiting the Giver of Life the nobles strewed flowers around, the place where the head is bowed for lustration, the house of corrupt odors, where the burning fragrant incense spreads and penetrates, intoxicating our souls in the presence of the Cause of All.
One of these shrines has, we feel, come into actual existence here; and the religious ceremonies for which it is adapted are not those of the Christian worship. Some more primitive, less spiritual rites, involving less of tragic awe and deep-wrought symbolism, should be here performed. It is better suited for Polifilo's lustration by Venus Physizoe than for the mass on Easter morning.
Even snow sifted on my face from rifts in the shingles which we had overlooked. But nevertheless I adhered to the morning lustration, sometimes going to the brook to do it. I had never experienced such cold. Yet the months of November and December, which at the time I thought were the extreme of winter weather, were as nothing to the polar blasts that poured down upon us in January and February.
It is a symbol of divine truth. The search for it was also made by the philosophers and priests in the Mysteries of the Spurious Freemasonry. LOTUS. The sacred plant of the Brahminical Mysteries, and the analogue of the acacia. It was also a sacred plant among the Egyptians. LUSTRATION. A purification by washing the hands or body in consecrated water, practised in the ancient Mysteries.
Among the spirits thus driven from their haunts are the souls of all the people who died since the last lustration of the town.
"And our little scented toilet futilities," Morrison's cameo of small-talk carried to the upper hall. "What could they add to such a Spartan lustration?" "Hurry, Hélène," said Sylvia. "It is late, and Mr. In spite of the exhortation to haste, Hélène stopped short, uplifted brush in hand. "Mr. Sylvia blinked at her in the glass, amazed conjectures racing through her mind.
On the other hand the intercalary period recurring every four years, and the census and lustration of the community connected with it, appear to have suggested a reckoning by -lustra- similar in plan to the Greek reckoning by Olympiads a method, however, which early lost its chronological significance in consequence of the irregularity that now prevailed as to the due holding of the census at the right time.
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