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“They have not forgotten the Mysteries,” she said, “they have found them too difficult. They want a God who will care for them, who will not demand that they struggle for enlightenment, but who will accept them just as they are, with all their sins, and take away their sins with repentance. It is not so, it will never be so, but perhaps it is the only way the unenlightened can bear to think of their Gods.” Lancelet smiled bitterly. “Perhaps a religion which demands that every man must work through lifetime after lifetime for his own salvation is too much for mankind. They want not to wait for God’s justice, but to see it now. And that is the lure which this new breed of priests has promised them.”
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“And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.”
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon“And if the earth Gods wreak vengeance on the sinless and the sinful alike, then this further destruction cannot be punishment for sins, but is in the way of all nature.”
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon“And indeed there is little opportunity for the old and poor to sin, except to doubt God’s goodness, and if God cannot understand why we doubt that, then he is not as wise as his priests think, heh heh heh . . .”
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon“… but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones”
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon“She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the agony of a bereavement unguessed till this moment.”
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon“And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference...”
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon“To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom,” Viviane said. “Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know.”
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon“Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.”
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon“...perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing is the light.”
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