Green Darkness

Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.

Twas the moment deep When we are conscious of the secret dawn Amid the darkness that we feel is green . . . Thy face remembered is from other worlds, It has been died for, though I know not when, It has been sung of, though I know not where . . . She

The new Queen was adept at fostering loyalty by hopes alone

Mistress Allen was only an ordinary provincial manor lady, bent on nothing more sinister than retrieving money of which she felt defrauded, and in the process either quarreling with or using people.

La verilitá, he thought, hardness of stone, heat of fires well banked. This man should never be a monk, nonetheless… Julian paused and chided himself. “Tuttavia e realmente dedicato.” Dedication, a rare and wondrous quality, one he himself had lost during the stultifying years of Court life.

Et ne nos inducas in tentationem." Why should an all-loving father lead his child into temptation? Why must he be implored not to? At that moment in Ursula's drafty chamber, Celia renounced God. She would cease to worry about religion. She would conform to any outward acts which seemed expedient at the time, and she would guide her own life as she saw fit. Her own will and desires should be her sole criteria. All else was inconsistency or downright lies. And nothing was worth suffering for.

follow after love, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy." What did that mean? "Love." Aye, yet one must find it before one could follow it. As for "spiritual gifts", they would undoubtedly be agreeable possessions though of limited use if they led only to prophesying.