[Oe List ...] The old Order passing away

[Randy Williams]

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On Oct 1, 2012, at 10:11 AM, "W. J." <synergi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> In case you missed the famous Tennyson quote from Morte d'Arthur, here it is:
>  And slowly answer'd Arthur from the barge:
>  "The old order changeth, yielding place to new
>  And God fulfils Himself in many ways,
>  Lest one good custom should corrupt the world."
> The O:E was what it was for just a brief moment in history.
> One could say that the Mystery took it out of being when its brief moment yielded to something new.
> 
> The spirit warriors who survive to this day remember that historical moment with awe and reverence as a turning point in human consciousness, and (at whatever personal cost) are among the privileged company that was called to participate.
> 
> Quoting Shakespeare's King Henry V before the Battle of Agincourt (1415),
> 
>     We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
>     For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
>     Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
>     This day shall gentle his condition;
>     And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
>     Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
>     And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
>     That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
> 
> Marshall
> 
> I was privileged to have a great English teacher in high school, BTW. She's long gone, but her influence was profound and her memory is cherished by her students to this day.
> 
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