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Orthodoxy

CHAPTER V
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Christianity came into the world firstly in order to assert with violence that a man had not only to look inwards, but to look outwards, to behold with astonishment and enthusiasm a divine company and a divine captain.

The only fun of being a Christian was that a man was not left alone with the Inner Light, but definitely recognised an outer light, fair as the sun, clear as the moon, terrible as an army with banners.
All the same, it will be as well if Jones does not worship the sun and moon.

If he does, there is a tendency for him to imitate them; to say, that because the sun burns insects alive, he may burn insects alive.

He thinks that because the sun gives people sun-stroke, he may give his neighbour measles.

He thinks that because the moon is said to drive men mad, he may drive his wife mad.


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