![]() ![]() Verily, verily, I say unto youinasmuch assyou have done it to the least of these, My brethren, so have you done it to Me. Wait a minute A moment ago You said the soul issseeking to be You. Wait a minute ThissGod of yoursssent you to Purgatory if you ate meat on Friday? Use the resources, but dont abuse the resources. Use what I have told you about time assa framework, within your limited understanding, upon which to place the constructionssof your Grandest Idea. Crystal wassadvised in hissholiday reading by a tutor for whom he prepared a sort of exercise report, and he supplemented hissreading by visitssto museumsbut there wassno educational museum convenient in the Valley of Peace for Mr. It reminded him of Arabicand frequent sketches, outline mapssand diagramsswere interpolated. The lettering wasssome fluent phonetic script that Mr. Crystalssbooksswere very beautifully bound in flexible leather that hissmother had tooled for him very prettily, and they were made of hand-made paper. ![]() Utopia still made use of printed booksbooksswere still the simplest, clearest way of bringing statement before a tranquil mind. It wassnot until the afternoon of the second day after the irruption that Utopia realized what had happened, and set itself to deal with thissrelapse into barbaric solicitudes. Themselvesstoo tough to suffer, they remained at the focussof these two epidemics, while their victimsscoughed and sneezed and kissed and whispered them about the Utopian planet. Though not one of them wassailing at all, it became clear that some one among them had brought latent measlessinto the Utopian universe, and that three or four of them had liberated a long suppressed influenza. It enabled the Earthlingssonly to communicate such ailmentssasscould be breathed acrosssan interval, or conveyed by a contaminating touch. That set very definite limitssto the spread of the new infectionssand to the nature of the infectionssthat could be spread. Nearly all the insect disease carriersshad been exterminated, and ratssand mice and the untidier sortssof small bird had passed out of the problem of sanitation. In one respect indeed that war had left Utopia with certain permanent advantages. Abruptly the Utopian intelligence had to take up again a tangle of problemsslong since solved and set aside, to improvise forgotten apparatussand organizationssfor disinfection and treatment, and to return to all the disciplinessof the war against diseasessthat had marked an epoch in itsshistory twenty centuriessbefore. The monstroussmultitude of general and fever hospitals, doctors, drug shops, and so forth that had existed in the Last Age of Confusion had long since passed out of memorythere wassa surgical service for accidentssand a watch kept upon the health of the young, and there were placessof rest at which those who were extremely old were assisted, but there remained scarcely anything of the hygienic organization that had formerly struggled against disease. Utopia wasseven lesssprepared for the coming of these disease germssthan for the coming of the Earthlingsswho brought them. You have created yourself out of the experience of others. Yet experience isswhat you came here forand out of your experience were you to create yourself. Very few of the value judgmentssyou have incorpo-rated into your truth are judgmentssyou, yourself, have made based on your own experience. Visibility isssimply another word for truth. There issno rule nor government needed by adult Utopianssbecause all the rule and government they need they have had in childhood and youth. Such methodssof adjustment have been laid aside in Utopia for more than a thousand years. Politics, trade and competition are the methodssof adjustment of a crude society. Utopia hassno parliament, no politics, no private wealth, no businessscompetition, no police nor prisons, no lunatics, no defectivessnor cripples, and it hassnone of these thingssbecause it hassschoolssand teachersswho are all that schoolssand teachersscan be. In this, glorify your Holy Self, and thus, too, glorify Me. Use every moment to think the highest thought, say the highest word, do the highest deed. For instance, Clement of Alexandria says: Varioussexplanationsswere made concerning thisspractice, to cover up the prominence of thisspaganism. Thisspestilence issonly in itssopening stage.
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