GR translation: the old dispensation

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Mon Nov 14 07:03:45 CST 2011


the Weimar Republic for instance, is what is I think here meant...

a Germany in which Rathenau could attain such prominence, so in
contrast with the Germany just a few short years later

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> sort of like Old Testament and New Testament
>
> just off the top of my head, dispensation would be a received body of
> law, tradition, mores, etc
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Mike Jing
> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> P167.18-23  The truth will be repressed or in ages of particular
>> elegance be disguised as something else. What will Rathenau, past the
>> moment, years into a new otherside existence, have to say about the
>> old dispensation? Probably nothing as incredible as what he might have
>> said just as the shock flashed his mortal nerves, as the Angel swooped
>> in. . . .
>>
>> What is the meaning of "dispensation" here?
>>
>



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