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The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus Christ: Section XI: Caph: Li... | Sacred Texts Archive

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  1. When other certain days had passed, the guide led Jesus to the Hall of Mirth, a hall most richly furnished, and replete with everything a carnal heart could wish.
  2. The choicest viands 🍖 and the most delicious wines 🍷 were on the boards; and maids, in gay attire, served all with grace and cheerfulness.
  3. And men and women, richly clad, were there; and they were wild with joy; they sipped from ever cup of mirth.
  4. And Jesus watched the happy thong in silence for a time, and then a man in garb of sage came up and said: “Most happy is the man who, like the bee, can gather sweets from every flower”
  5. “The wise man is the one who seeks for pleasure, and can find it everywhere.”
  6. “At best man’s span of life on earth is short, and then he dies and goes, and he knows not where.”
  7. “Then let us eat, and drink, and dance, and sing, and get the joys of life, for death comes on apace.”
  8. “It is but foolishness to spend a life for other men. Behold, all die and lie together in the grave 🪦, where no can know the none can show forth gratitude.”
  9. But Jesus answered not; upon the tinseled guests in all their rounds of mirth he gazed in silent thought.
  10. And then among the guests he saw a man whose clothes were coarse; who shows in face and hands the lines of toil and want.
  11. The giddy throng 🤣👉 found pleasure in abusing him; they jostled him against the wall, and laughed at his discomfiture.
  12. And then a poor, frail woman came, who carried in her face and form the marks pf sin and shame 😞; and without mercy she was spit upon 💦, and jeered 🤣, and driven from the hall.
  13. And then a little child 🎀, with timid ways and hungry mien, came in and asked for a just morsel of their food 🍞.
  14. But she was driven out uncared for and unloved; and still the merry dance 💃 went on.
  15. And when the pleasure seekers urged Jesus join them in their mirth, he said:
  16. “How can I seek for pleasure for myself while others are in want? How can you think that while the children cry for bread 🍞, while those in haunts of sin call out for sympathy and love that i can fill myself to full with the good things of life?”
  17. “I tell you, nay; we are all kin, each one a part of the great human heart 🌎🫀.”