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English version by
David Matual

Original Language
Russian

The Sign

Themes

Light

Night

Silence

Snake

Stillness

Recommended Books

	Dostoevsky and Soloviev: The Art of Integral Vision, by Marina Kostalevsky
	The Heart of Reality: Essays on Beauty, Love and Ethics, by Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov / Edited by Vladimir Wozniuk
	The Justification of the Good: An Essay on Moral Philosophy, by Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov / Edited by Boris Jakim
	Lectures on Divine Humanity: (Library of Russian Philosophy), by Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov / Edited by Boris Jakim
	The Meaning of Love: (Library of Russian Philosophy), by Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov

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One, forever one! Though in the sleeping temple
There is a hellish glow in the darkness, and thunder in the midst of the stillness,--
Though everything round about has fallen, one banner will not waver,
And the shield will not move from the crumbled wall.
In sleepy horror we came running to the sanctuary,
And our temple was all full of stifling fumes,
Chunks of silver lay scattered about,
And black smoke clung to the tattered carpets.
And only the one sign of the imperishable covenant
Stood as before between heaven and earth,
And from heaven the same light illuminated both the Virgin of Nazareth
And the vain poison of the serpent before her.

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