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To: RegulatorCountry

I wonder if it could be referring to the liberal, relativists, who have seen the light and are on the way to shed their beastliness for conversion?????


49 posted on 05/18/2010 10:10:47 PM PDT by amihow
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To: amihow
The whole thing is an allusion to Revelation, it's full of references. "Spirit of the world," 2,000 years (of Christianity ... seems reasonably clear to me.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center 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?

53 posted on 05/18/2010 10:21:24 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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