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The Alchemist, v. 1, issue 5, February 1941
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8 ---- ALCHEMIST ---- hypocrisy, ingratitude, and stiff-neckedness, that they may defend themselves against the children of God, the Rich. "Suzerain of Resentment, Accountant of Humiliations, Treasurer of old Hatreds, though alone dost fertilize the brain of man whom injustice has crushed; thou breathest into him the idea of pre-meditated vengeance, sure misdeeds; thou incites him to murder; thou givest him the abundant joy of accomplished reprisals and permittest him to taste the intoxicating draughts of tears of which he is cause. "Hope of virility, Aguish of the Empty Womb, thou dost not demand the bootless offering of chaste loins, thou dost not sing praises of Lenten follies; thou alone receivest the carnal supplications and petitions of poor and avaricious families. Thou determinest the mother to sell her daughter, to give her son; thou sidest sterile and reprobate loves; Guardian of strident Neuroses, Leaden Tower of Hysteria, bloody vase of rape! "Master, they faithful servants, on their knees, implore thee and supplicate thee to satisfy them when they wish the torture of all those who love and aid them; they supplicate thee to assure them the joy of delectable misdeeds unknown to justice, spells whose unknown origin baffles the reason of man; they ask, finally, glory, riches, power, of thee, King of the Disinherited, Son who-art to overthrow the inexcrable Father!" The priest then rises, stands erect, out-stretches his arms, and, in a voice trembling with hate, spews forth blasphemies and maledictions and vituperations upon the figure of the altered Christ. As he finished, the choir boys trill; amen. Now the priest turns toward the congregat-
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8 ---- ALCHEMIST ---- hypocrisy, ingratitude, and stiff-neckedness, that they may defend themselves against the children of God, the Rich. "Suzerain of Resentment, Accountant of Humiliations, Treasurer of old Hatreds, though alone dost fertilize the brain of man whom injustice has crushed; thou breathest into him the idea of pre-meditated vengeance, sure misdeeds; thou incites him to murder; thou givest him the abundant joy of accomplished reprisals and permittest him to taste the intoxicating draughts of tears of which he is cause. "Hope of virility, Aguish of the Empty Womb, thou dost not demand the bootless offering of chaste loins, thou dost not sing praises of Lenten follies; thou alone receivest the carnal supplications and petitions of poor and avaricious families. Thou determinest the mother to sell her daughter, to give her son; thou sidest sterile and reprobate loves; Guardian of strident Neuroses, Leaden Tower of Hysteria, bloody vase of rape! "Master, they faithful servants, on their knees, implore thee and supplicate thee to satisfy them when they wish the torture of all those who love and aid them; they supplicate thee to assure them the joy of delectable misdeeds unknown to justice, spells whose unknown origin baffles the reason of man; they ask, finally, glory, riches, power, of thee, King of the Disinherited, Son who-art to overthrow the inexcrable Father!" The priest then rises, stands erect, out-stretches his arms, and, in a voice trembling with hate, spews forth blasphemies and maledictions and vituperations upon the figure of the altered Christ. As he finished, the choir boys trill; amen. Now the priest turns toward the congregat-
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