BOOK XXXVI
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If there is an incapable one, a useless one, a vagabond, an idiot, a wretch that the world rejects, let him come without fear to the Lord God, let him read the Book of deliverance and let him take his place at table for the banquet of the life that does not perish. |
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For the skilful, the hard-working, the scholarly, the intelligent and the well-off of the world exclude themselves due to their conceited pretensions, their dead creations, their profane knowledge, their self-esteem and their satisfaction with the fallen world. |
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We cannot do anything by ourselves, we do not know anything, we do not hear anything and we do not see anything, for the filth of the sin of death envelops us all over, and the devil blows into us envy, vanity, fear and hate without ever tiring. |
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Are we not weak among the weak, poor among the poor, errant among the errant and blind among the blind? For our will, our learning, our intelligence and our judgement have been ridiculed beyond all expression, and our impotence in the face of evil has revealed itself to be total. |
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It is by approaching him, like the living stone rejected by men but chosen and precious before God, that you too, like living stones, form a spiritual house.
PETER
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Oh, peoples, men born of the earth, you who have abandoned yourselves to drunkenness, to sleep and to ignorance of God, be abstemious, stop wallowing in debauchery, bewitched as you are by brutish sleep!
HERMES TRISMEGISTUS
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