Part One, Chapter One
Decline and Fall (1928)
“In schools throughout the world God's but described to you.
Within the spirit's school one sees and loves him too.”
The Cherubinic Wanderer
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Within the spirit's school one sees and loves him too." by Angelus Silesius?
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