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A bridge does not abandon its first shore when it grows out in spans towards the further one.
The Flame is Green (1971)
We ourselves become the bridges out over the interval that is the world and time.
The Flame is Green (1971)
All these growing things are good, if they grow towards the final answers that were given in the beginning.
The Flame is Green (1971)
Our own great movement will grow with its own impetus wherever it is not blighted.
The Flame is Green (1971)
Do not be fooled as to what it is and who sowed it.
The Flame is Green (1971)
Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.
The Flame is Green (1971)
Our task is to grow out until we reach them.
The Flame is Green (1971)
In this growing there are no really new things or new situations. There are only things growing out right, or things growing out deformed or shriveled.
The Flame is Green (1971)
We are asked to swear fealty to the parasite disease which the enemy sowed from the beginning. I will not do it, and I hope that you will not.
The Flame is Green (1971)
"Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names," the Black Pope was saying, and now his head was quite powdered with snow. "It used to be only the English who excelled in the deception of words. Then the French went even beyond them, and now the whole world is adept at it."
The Flame is Green (1971)
Beware of those who manufacture final answers as they go along, of those who will catch you on their catch-phrases and let you perish in the traps. All the final answers were given in the beginning.
The Flame is Green (1971)
But often, and this will be the hard part for all of you to understand, we will warn and advise before we kill. And quite often we will not kill at all. Try to understand this.
The Flame is Green (1971)
The devils stroll the earth again and infect with the red sickness. They must, at all cost to themselves, destroy the growing tendrils before such can touch the other side. For, whenever one least growing creeper touches across the interval, that means the extinction of a devil.
The Flame is Green (1971)
Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.
The Flame is Green (1971)
"There are only two possible statements that can be made about the worlds," the Black Pope of the Carlist Hills had lectured one day. "Alpha: There is a God. Omega: there is not a God. To adhere to either of these two statements strongly is to be logical at least. Not to do so is to be in the snivelling wasteland between and to have no point of contact with logic or reason."
The Flame is Green (1971)