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Where There Is Nothing 257
they wept and laughed and hated according to the impulse
of their hearts. They gathered the great Earth to their
breasts and their lips, ... in what they believed would
be an eternal kiss. It was then that the temptation be
gan. The men and women listened to them, and be
cause when they had lived ... in mother wit and nat
ural kindness, they sometimes did one another an injury,
they thought that it would be better to be safe than to be
blessed, they made the Laws. The Laws were the first
sin. They were the first mouthful of the apple ; the mo
ment man had made them he began to die; we must put
out the Laws as I put out this candle. And when they
had lived amidst the green Earth that is the Love of
God, they were sometimes wetted by the rain, and some
times cold and hungry, and sometimes alone from one
another; they thought it would be better to be com
fortable than to be blessed. They began to build big
houses and big towns. They grew wealthy and they sat
chattering at their doors; and the embrace that was to
have been eternal ended. . . . We must put out the
towns as I put out this candle. But that is not all, for
man created a worse thing. . . . Man built up the
Church. We must destroy the Church, we must put it
out as I put out this candle. . . . We must destroy
everything that has Law and Number.
The rebel is driven from the monastery. He is
followed by only two faithful friars, his disciples,
who go among the people to disseminate the new
gospel. But the people fail to understand them.
Immersed in darkness and superstition, they look
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