OF THE PREACHERS OF DEATH
"There are preachers of death, and the earth is full of those unto whom it is necessary to preach the abandonment of life.
Full is earth of superfluous ones, spoiled is life by the much-too-many. Would they could be tempted away from this life by 'eternal life.'
' Yellow ones ' the preachers of death are called or 'black ones.' I shall, however, show them unto you in other colours besides.
There are the terrible who carry about within themselves a beast of prey and have no choice except voluptuousness or self-laceration. And even their voluptuousness is self-laceration.
They have not even become human beings, these terrible ones : let them preach abandonment of life and themselves pass away !
There are the consumptive of soul. When scarce born they begin to die and long for the doctrine of weariness and renunciation.
They would fain be dead, and we should approve of their will ! Let us beware lest we awaken these dead ones or damage these living coffins !
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