Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl01218)

At 10:53 PM 5/21/96 -0400, you wrote:

>"Each one, in his remembrance, is the link which makes for us all
>   the faire story of Glaston as one continuous whole. So I, being
>   linked in the spirit with Eawulf who comes from out the Danes in
>   olden time, see with his eyes, hear with his ears, and live in
>   mine own spiritual life the life that he lived in his day. . . .
>   So does Eawulf, and so does Abbot Kent who loved the Mere and
>   there took his pleasaunce, goe with me and in me, and I in him
>   to see the sunset imaged in the waters and hear the tide ycoming
>   in the sedges of Cock Lake ere it reached me over dear Mere. So
>   being united and yet separate - united in sympathy and yet
>   separate in that he is hym and I, Johannes - soe, I say, do we
>   have and live a hundred lives where once we lived but one.  Thus
>   are we. Is it not the Paradise of Saints, and not the Purgatory
>   of Sinners, in which we all dwell and praise and rejoice as
>   one?"'
>
>Scanned and uploaded by Alan Bain, 21 May 1996.
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>Why do people keep telling me about books which cause me to develope sudden
needs? That is very interesting. I have a strong tie to Glaestoun abbey and
I will be interested in the "evocations of memory" that book brings to life.
"We have an live a hundred lives where once we lived but one"...well that
certainly doesn't contradict my own ideas does it?

alexis