Monday, August 27, 2018
Redemptive Power
Robin Lane Fox, Augustine: Conversions to Confessions (New York: Basic Books, 2015), p. 122:
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The meals which were brought to the Elect were therefore selected for their richness in Light. By eating fruit and grain, they killed nothing. Instead, their stomachs separated out the waste matter (perhaps in visibly greater bulk, as they were vegetarians): it was then excreted, but never into water as it would pollute it. For the Elect, a modern lavatory would be an abomination. After digesting it, the Elect then breathed out the remaining Light from their mouths, especially while praying and singing. They also sweated it, hiccupped it or even, so the older Augustine mocked, farted it out to set it on its way back to heaven. Manichaeism is the only world religion to have believed in the redemptive power of farts.Related post: A Savior Goddess?
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