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Extract from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet


And now you ask in your heart, 
"How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?" 
Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower, 
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee. 
For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, 
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love, 
And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. 

People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees. 

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    To The Temple of Alden

    Royle Thurston (H. Spencer Lewis)
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    honey, and am dealing with major abuse abuse and sabotage.  I even show the the mwntal anguiah they bring to me for not stopping, and they continue to harass more.  Though as the marriage of heaven and hell states, “rose cover the thorns as the singing bees fly’s over the barren Heath”. That argument correlated with my shaman issue and legal argument.   As the rose feeding the bees honey, I too tried stopping. So they hack amd wired my phone.  It’s quite disturbing.  I will Ben once my village tuning into nature as I’m guided onhow to handle the bees. As the magistry, without this abuse I wouldn’t know how roc establish the order.  I have tried everything’s to help the bees become good people.  There’s nothing I can’t do but bring a legal criminal case whichever I’m upset about.  I can’t move to Europe because the bees don’t stop 

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