The Rosy Crucifixion 2 – Plexus

in your spirit, which are God’s. Amen! Amen!”

Continuing as if he saw not nor heard not, George spouted: “Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? Ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and

In the midst of it a lawyer named Mannie Hirsch walked in—another friend of Arthur Raymond. He was passionate about music, and particularly passionate about Scriabin

If they liked it it would appear in print, my name would be signed to it, and I could show it to my friends, carry it about with me, put it under my pillow at night, read it surreptitiously, over and over, because the first time you see yourself in print you’re beside yourself, you’ve at last proved to the world that you really are a writer, and you must prove it to the world, at least once in your life, or you will go mad from believing it all by yourself.

It was just dawning on me that to make music one had first to make himself into an exquisite, sensitive instrument.

Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. She had left the fold and had been afflicted by the Lord.

Call me not Naomi, call me Mara! And Mara had disowned her people, had disowned the very name they had given her.

I began reading The Book of Ruth, wherein it speaks of Naomi and the Moabites. At the 20th verse I was electrified: “And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.”

In what days? I ask myself. Whenever was this glorious period and why had man forgotten it? In those days there was no king in Israel. This is not from the history of the Jews, this is out of the history of Man. That is how man began, in high estate, in dignity, honor and wisdom. Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

“In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”