Beatification & Invisible living creature

[Otto]

Which "Fort"?

Otto

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From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 7:01 PM
Subject: re: Beatification & Invisible living creature


> .living Creature? Hum? 
> 
> Exactly as the creatures microscopic upon your skin believe you to be a
> Planet. 
> 
> M&D602
> 
> I now have a theory that our existence, as a whole, is an organism that
> is very old--a globular thing within a starry shell, afloat in a
> super-existence in which there may be countless other organisms--and
> that we, as cells in its composition, partake of, and are ruled by, its
> permeating
> senility. The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the
> imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing
> is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me. When I see
> myself, and cats,
> and dogs losing irregularities of conduct and approaching the
> irreproachable,
> with advancing age, I see that what is ennobling us is senility. I
> conclude
> that the virtues, the austerities, the proprieties are ideal in our
> existence,
> because they are imitations of the state of a whole existence, which is
> very
> old, good, and beyond reproach. The ideal state is meekness, or
> humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am
> becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall
> be a saint.
> 
>  - Fort

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