Transpository

You must not bottle up your virtue to save it for a time of need. You need it now, as always.

You must not save your virtue for the end times. There is no future, it doesn't exist.

You must pour out your virtue at every chance, at every moment of every day.

You will find that your virtue is never spent, is ever-renewed, and that the more it flows the more plentiful.

You will find that God's sea accepts all rivers, and that a drop in the ocean moves, spreads, thins, but is not lost.

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Monday, December 09, 2002

The Second Coming

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight:  somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

—William Butler Yeats

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New: Order, Order

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