GR translation: the old dispensation

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Mon Nov 14 08:17:46 CST 2011


I think in this context the old dispensation would have been
Rathenau's living existence, as opposed to "years into a new otherside
existence."

>> 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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