“27 Proposition. The image, marke, name, and number of the beast: are of the first great Romane beast, and whole Latine impyre universallie, and not of the second beaste, or Antichrist alone in particular.”

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593), The First and Introductory Treatise

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593), The First and Introductory Treatise

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593), The First and Introductory Treatise

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593), The First and Introductory Treatise

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593), The First and Introductory Treatise

"De Gustibus", line 586.
Men and Women (1855)
Variant: Progress, man’s distinctive mark alone,
Not God’s, and not the beasts’: God is, they are,
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Great Beast (1947), p. 123; it should be noted that in this comment she is referring to the intolerant traditions of ancient Rome and ancient Isreal, and not the modern entities, one of which did not yet exist at the time of her writing.

from documentary Traceroute

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