For Pondering
“Today ….
taboos and terrors still linger, many of them, in the form of conventions of
morality, uneasy strivings of conscience, doubts and desperations of religion;
but ultimately Man will emerge from all these things, free-- familiar, that is,
with them all, making use of all, allowing generously for the values of all,
but hampered and bound by none. He will realize the inner meaning of the creeds
and rituals of the ancient religions, and will hail with joy the fulfillment of
their far prophecy down the ages-- finding after all the long-expected Saviour
of the world within his own breast, and Paradise in the disclosure there of the
everlasting peace of the soul.”
-- Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds; Their Origin & Meaning, by Brace and
Company: New York [1920]
Company: New York [1920]
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