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Of the femininity of the Church, as the reason for its omnipotence.

Of the color violet (restrained, mysterious, veiled love, color of

canoness).

The priest is immense, because he makes one believe in a host of

astounding matters. That the Church wants to do all and to be all, is

a law of the human mind. Mankind worships authority. Priests are the

servants and sectaries of the imagination. The throne and the altar,

revolutionary maxim. Religious intoxication of great cities. Pantheism.

I, that is all; all, that is I. Vortex.

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