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Paganism
Paganism is an umbrella term for a variety of religions, many of which are polytheistic or pantheistic. Some are attempts to reconstruct ancient religions, while others are quite recent. A few examples of Pagan religions are Wicca, Celtic Reconstructionism, and Asatru.
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Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) 'thou shalt not' predominates unduly over 'thou shalt.
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― On Liberty
― On Liberty
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The portraits, of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full of the blue and bronze of peacocks, fell over the doors, and shut out all history and activity untouched with beauty and peace; and now when I looked at my Crevelli and pondered on the rose in the hand of the Virgin, wherein the form was so delicate and precise that it seemed more like a thought than a flower, or at the grey dawn and rapturous faces of my Francesca, I knew all a Christian's ecstasy without his
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― Rosa Alchemica
― Rosa Alchemica
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