THE EQUINOX
Nevertheless, the father of men, being on occasion
drunken like Noah, let the world perceive the mysteries of
life.
Psyche, made divine by her torments, became the bride of
Eros; Adonis, raised from death, found again his Venus in
Olympus; Job, victorious over evil, recovered more than
he had lost.
The law is a test of courage.
To love life more than one fears the menaces of death is
to merit life.
The elect are those who dare; woe to the timid!
Thus the slaves of law, who make themselves the tyrants
of conscience and the servants of fear, and those who
begrudge that man should hope, and the Pharisees of all the
synagogues and of all the churches, are those who receive the
reproofs and the curses of the Father.
Was not the Christ excommunicated and crucified by
the synagogue?
Was not Savonarola burned by the order of the sovereign
pontiff of the Christian religion ?
Are not the Pharisees to-day just what they were in the
time of Caiaphas?
If any one speaks to them in the name of intelligence and
love, will they listen?
In rescuing the children of liberty from the tyranny of
the Pharaohs, Moses inaugurated the reign of the Father.
In breaking the insupportable yoke of mosaic pharisaism,
Jesus welcomed all men to the brotherhood of the only son
of God.
When the last ideals fall, when the last material chains of
conscience break, when the last of them that killed the
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