“There is the necessity for the spiritual point of focus to be embodied on earth. This is the one thing that has been lacking.”

—  Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter

Thus It Is, 1989, p. 110
As of a Trumpet, On Eagle's Wings, Thus It Is

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