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Good Morning

Please grab a book, journal paper and have a seat, no more than 4 per table.

• “We have followed you,” they said, “ and we shall follow you wherever you go. If danger threatens you, we shall face it also. If it be death, we shall die with you. You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.” Pg 82

• “We seized their body and we pressed our lips to theirs.” Pg 83

• “And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms is neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.” Pg 84

• “If this is the great evil of being alone, then what is good and what is evil?” pg 85

• “Everything which comes from the many is good. Everything which comes from one is evil. Thus have we been taught with our first breath.” Pg 85

• “we are learning to doubt.” Pg 86

• “And we felt torn, torn for some word we could not find.” Pg 87

• “this house was left from the Unmentionable Times.” Pg 89

• “Then we lit a candle, and we brought paper from the room of the manuscripts, and we sat by the window, for we knew that we could not sleep tonight.” Pg 92

• It seems to us it asks a sign from us, a spark, a first commandment. We cannot know what word we are to give, nor what great deed this earth expects to witness.” Pg 93

“I AM. I THINK. I WILL.” Pg 94

• “I wished to know the meaning of things. I am the meaning.” Pg 94

• “Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the lodestone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me.” Pg 95

• “My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its goal. It is its own purpose.” Pg 95

• “I am a man. This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.” Pg 95

• “I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.” Pgs 95-96

• “I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.” Pg 96

• “For the word “We” must never be spoken, save by one’s choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within man’s soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all the evils on earth, the root of man’s torture by men, and of an unspeakable lie.” Pgs 96 -97

• “This god, this one word: “I.” ” pg 97

• “I wept in deliverance and in pity for all mankind.” Pg 98

• “I understood the blessed thing which I had called my curse. I understood why the best in me had been my sins and my transgressions; and why I had never felt guilt in my sins.” Pg 98

•“I love you.” Pg 98

• “His name was Prometheus.” Pg 99

• “Her name was Gaea. Let this be your name, my Golden One, for you are to be the mother of a new kind of gods.” Pg 99

• “For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute forces of their numbers. I have my mind.” Pg 100

• “They will follow me and I shall lead them to my fortress. And here, in this uncharted wildness, I and they, my chosen friends, my fellow builders, shall write the first chapter in the new history of man.” Pg 101

• “There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.” Pg 101

• “He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right.” Pgs 101 – 102

• “What brought it to pass? What disaster took their reason away from men? What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word “We.”” Pg 102

• “Those men who survived- those eager to obey, eager to live for one another, since they had nothing else to vindicate them- those men could neither carry on, nor preserve what they had received.” Pg 102

• “I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word “I,” could give it up and not know what they lost.” Pg 103

• “For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish… the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on. Man, not men.” Pgs 103 - 104

• “This word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO” pg 105

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