<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358749" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Julian at the Mysteries</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when he found himself in darkness,<br>in the earth's awful depths,<br>with a group of unholy Greeks,<br>and bodiless figures appeared before him<br>with haloes of light,<br>the young Julian for a moment lost his nerve:<br>an impulse from his pious years came back<br>and he crossed himself.<br>The Figures vanished at once;<br>the haloes faded away, the lights went out.<br>The Greeks glanced at each other.<br>The young man said: 'Did you see the miracle?<br>I'm frightened, friends. I want to leave.<br>Didn't you see how the demons vanished<br>the second they saw me make the holy sign of the cross?'<br>The Greeks chuckled scornfully:<br>'Shame on you, shame, to talk that way<br>to us sophists and philosophers!<br>If you want to say things like that,<br>say them to the Bishop of Nicomedia and his priests.<br>The greatest gods of our glorious Greece<br>appeared before you.<br>And if they left, don't think for a minute<br>that they were frightened by a gesture.<br>It was just that when they saw you<br>making that vile, that crude sign,<br>their noble nature was disgusted<br>and they left you in contempt.'<br>This is what they said to him, and the fool<br>recovered from his holy, blessed fear,<br>convinced by the unholy words of the Greeks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Constantine+P.+Cavafy">Constantine P. Cavafy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358749" data-title="Julian at the Mysteries de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="But when he found himself in darkness, in the earth's awful depths, with a group of unholy Greeks, and bodiless figures appeared before him with haloes of light, the young Julian for a moment lost his nerve: an impulse from his pious years came ba..."></div> </div> </div>

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