The flesh covers the heart like a
veil and will
even drag it to hell if it is let... that «s why Christ takes that
veil away so we can at last live from the heart (why do you think you hate it when you sin — it «s no
longer you who sin, that «s not your true heart — its the flesh!).
Then comes a list of lesser things «beyond necessity, purely as a special service to God, which is contrary to faith... Tonsures, chasubles, albs... altar cloths, lights... bells, holy water, holy salt, incense», and a further list of ambivalent things: «
veiling of statues, keeping fasts (except for the clergy), Litany of the Saints, Hymns to Mary of an
evening, Confession torture, Palm swallowing, Passion sermons eight hours
long, Consecrating the fire,... St Martin's Goose... three Christmas Masses, Oats on St Stephen's Day, St. John's draught».
In the
longer term then, surely, this contradiction will seriously damage CAGW from within, and the tensions it creates will fail to be contained at some point, spilling out to the notice of the general public, who mainly don't come to see your good reports here or read BH or WUWT or Climate Etc. so currently won't
even get to glimpse beneath the
veils.