Meny

Would that you could live on fragrance of the earth, and like an air plant be sustained by light.

But since you must kill to eat, and rob the young of its mother’s milk to quench your thirst, let it then be an act of worship.

And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in many.

When you kill a beast say to him in your heart, ’By the same power that slays you, I too am slain; and I too shall be consumed.

For the law that delivered you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand.

Your blood and my blood is naught, but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven.’

And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart,

’Your seeds shall live in my body.

And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath.

And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons,’

And in the autumn, when you gather the grapes of your vineyard for the winepress, say in your heart,

’I too am a vineyard, and my fruit shall be gathered for the winepress.