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>>Could I reiterate my request that List members not post irrelevant, non-Iraq >>related posts to this List. Dear All, Personally I like John-Peter's message very much. It did inspire me. If it is not too much a burden to the List members' mailboxes; I am happy to see more reflections like this; they add to the List's readability rather than detract from it. I myself particularly need inspiration like this, as I am a person who is easily frustrated by what I perceive as evil but just can't do much about. ALL the Best, Emir ============================ ----- Original Message ----- 寄件者: "Voices UK" <voices@viwuk.freeserve.co.uk> 收件者: <casi-discuss@lists.casi.org.uk> 傳送日期: 2003年7月20日 AM 04:03 主旨: Re: [casi] Andreas: Zarathustra's Prayer Call Dear List Members, Could I reiterate my request that List members not post irrelevant, non-Iraq related posts to this List. John-Peter: if you want to send a message of this nature to Andreas, please do so by e-mailing Andreas rather than the whole list. I have enough e-mails to delete as it is (as I'm sure do many others on this List). Best wishes, Gabriel ----- Original Message ----- From: "John-Peter Hopperger" <j-ph@mindspring.com> To: <casi-discuss@lists.casi.org.uk> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 8:56 PM Subject: [casi] Andreas: Zarathustra's Prayer Call > Andreas, > > Here is my attempt at your beautiful selection > from the Avesta. > > Best regards, > JPH > > > "Even the wisest among us > must not be judge." > > "He lives his life, > the others theirs. > GOD only knows the end." > > ... > > "I simply know that by doctrines > something gets crushed within my heart, > that yearning for the good is slowly smothered, > and that I'm made to cry for liberation." > > "Him thus, I call false teacher: > who soils what is the innermost, > who desecrates my earth for me, > and bars my gaze up to the sky, > who only makes the clever slyer, > imparts no more than earthly gain, > beats down the one reaching beyond." > > ... > > "Yes, they live well, but off the want of others, > whom they defraud out of their pay, > and by example they tempt new ones > forever with their own corrupted ways." > > ... > > "Leaving them be, just what they are, > will be penance enough for them. > But to make sure they can't grasp farther, > discern with me the end to which such doing leads, > and have this understanding keep you whole." > > "Set free for us, once more, this earth, > now she is but a sacrifice for those gone mad. > Ideologues and victimizers reign in life, > but, siding with that life, we will prevail." > > "Because our life is more than food and drink: > Justice it is, > and all pervades heaven and earth." > > ... > > "You, Oh GOD, doest know: > that I pray thus > only because I love mankind." _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk