登陆注册
5215100000114

第114章

That's not the idea of it in the Orthodox Church....That's Rome, and not even the whole of Rome, it's false-those are the worst of the Catholics the Inquisitors, the Jesuits!...And there could not be such a fantastic creature as your Inquisitor.What are these sins of mankind they take on themselves? Who are these keepers of the mystery who have taken some curse upon themselves for the happiness of mankind? When have they been seen? We know the Jesuits, they are spoken ill of, but surely they are not what you describe? They are not that at all, not at all....They are simply the Romish army for the earthly sovereignty of the world in the future, with the Pontiff of Rome for Emperor...that's their ideal, but there's no sort of mystery or lofty melancholy about it....It's simple lust of power, of filthy earthly gain, of domination-something like a universal serfdom with them as masters-that's all they stand for.They don't even believe in God perhaps.Your suffering Inquisitor is a mere fantasy.""Stay, stay," laughed Ivan."how hot you are! A fantasy you say, let it be so! Of course it's a fantasy.But allow me to say: do you really think that the Roman Catholic movement of the last centuries is actually nothing but the lust of power, of filthy earthly gain? Is that Father Paissy's teaching?""No, no, on the contrary, Father Paissy did once say something rather the same as you...but of course it's not the same, not a bit the same," Alyosha hastily corrected himself.

"A precious admission, in spite of your 'not a bit the same.' Iask you why your Jesuits and Inquisitors have united simply for vile material gain? Why can there not be among them one martyr oppressed by great sorrow and loving humanity? You see, only suppose that there was one such man among all those who desire nothing but filthy material gain-if there's only one like my old Inquisitor, who had himself eaten roots in the desert and made frenzied efforts to subdue his flesh to make himself free and perfect.But yet all his life he loved humanity, and suddenly his eyes were opened, and he saw that it is no great moral blessedness to attain perfection and freedom, if at the same time one gains the conviction that millions of God's creatures have been created as a mockery, that they will never be capable of using their freedom, that these poor rebels can never turn into giants to complete the tower, that it was not for such geese that the great idealist dreamt his dream of harmony.Seeing all that he turned back and joined- the clever people.Surely that could have happened?""Joined whom, what clever people?" cried Alyosha, completely carried away."They have no such great cleverness and no mysteries and secrets....Perhaps nothing but Atheism, that's all their secret.Your Inquisitor does not believe in God, that's his secret!""What if it is so! At last you have guessed it.It's perfectly true, it's true that that's the whole secret, but isn't that suffering, at least for a man like that, who has wasted his whole life in the desert and yet could not shake off his incurable love of humanity? In his old age he reached the clear conviction that nothing but the advice of the great dread spirit could build up any tolerable sort of life for the feeble, unruly, 'incomplete, empirical creatures created in jest.' And so, convinced of this, he sees that he must follow the counsel of the wise spirit, the dread spirit of death and destruction, and therefore accept lying and deception, and lead men consciously to death and destruction, and yet deceive them all the way so that they may not notice where they are being led, that the poor blind creatures may at least on the way think themselves happy.And note, the deception is in the name of Him in Whose ideal the old man had so fervently believed all his life long.Is not that tragic? And if only one such stood at the head of the whole army 'filled with the lust of power only for the sake of filthy gain'- would not one such be enough to make a tragedy? More than that, one such standing at the head is enough to create the actual leading idea of the Roman Church with all its armies and Jesuits, its highest idea.I tell you frankly that I firmly believe that there has always been such a man among those who stood at the head of the movement.Who knows, there may have been some such even among the Roman Popes.Who knows, perhaps the spirit of that accursed old man who loves mankind so obstinately in his own way, is to be found even now in a whole multitude of such old men, existing not by chance but by agreement, as a secret league formed long ago for the guarding of the mystery, to guard it from the weak and the unhappy, so as to make them happy.No doubt it is so, and so it must be indeed.I fancy that even among the Masons there's something of the same mystery at the bottom, and that that's why the Catholics so detest the Masons as their rivals breaking up the unity of the idea, while it is so essential that there should be one flock and one shepherd....But from the way I defend my idea I might be an author impatient of your criticism.Enough of it.""You are perhaps a Mason yourself!" broke suddenly from Alyosha.

"You don't believe in God," he added, speaking this time very sorrowfully.He fancied besides that his brother was looking at him ironically."How does your poem end?" he asked, suddenly looking down.

"Or was it the end?"

同类推荐
  • 补红楼梦

    补红楼梦

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • Alfred Tennyson

    Alfred Tennyson

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 佛说无常经

    佛说无常经

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 白喉全生集

    白喉全生集

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 同异录

    同异录

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
热门推荐
  • 意外的婚礼

    意外的婚礼

    沈彩榆有一个11年的暗恋史,杨最也有一个11年的追求史,浪漫吗?爱情感动了上苍,感动了世人,就是感动不了他(她),可悲吗?能走在一起是福气,能否走下去是运气,这个意外的婚礼带给他们的是好还是坏?蓦然回首,那人却在灯火阑珊处。
  • 梨园十二姊

    梨园十二姊

    正不知在哪里能歇口气的我,颓然地坐在大姐兰霞身边的一把椅子上,我不敢大声说什么,只有喃喃地在心里说,又一个女子为情选择死亡了!我真不知这茫茫大千,这个情字就这么重要吗?我不知道我该怎么做。十二姐兰蔻来到我身边,捏着我的手,小声对我说,你得注意一下你家俊宇了,昨夜他和几个姐夫唠嗑,一直说你是个书痴,上班一整天不见影不说,回家就拿书本看书,说想和你说一句话都难。而据我的可靠消息得知,他可能外头有人了。如果你想见见那个女子,等这边事情一完,我带你去找她。
  • 墨戏黛之笑红楼

    墨戏黛之笑红楼

    新文已发,希望大家踊跃跳坑~《红楼之玉溶潇湘》:金玉缘成,黛玉毅然离开荣国府,却因意外为水溶所救!从此,孤傲轻灵的弱女子,与性情倨傲的皇子之间开始了一段缠绵悱恻的情感纠缠。无意皇宫生活,向往青山绿水的林妹妹,此一回能否博得命运的青睐?不期的邂逅,是前缘早定,还是彼此生命中的匆匆过客?清泠飘逸的她,霸道不羁的他,一见钟情,还是日久生情?惊觉自己沦陷时,却面临离去的绝决,躲得开感情的纠缠,却逃不过自己的心,相遇,是缘,是劫?蓦然回首,原来一切皆有定数!最终,他能否获取那颗孤傲的芳心,与之携手一生?本文温馨多多,小虐多多,过程曲折,结局圆满!情节一:长眸一眯,嘴角掀起一抹嘲讽的笑意:“救命之恩,世人最常见的报答的方式不外乎以身相许!”看着那张俊颜静静地道:“报恩的方式有种种,而王爷方才所说的,却是最不明智的一种,黛玉绝不会奉上自己的终身!”情节二:看着面前清泠淡然的少女,眉眼间那份傲然令人动容,话出口却是冷酷无情:“朕的两个儿子为一个女子大打出手,你说,这样的女子朕如何能容忍?”情节三:对着面前的绝世仙姿,长眸闪过狂涓和怒火:“不要自作聪明,我不要你的善解人意,你以为这样,我便会感激你?”拥住怀里的温软,贪婪地汲取着她的幽香,语气蓦地柔软:“即使权势富贵在手,没有你一起分享,又有何义?”《墨戏黛之笑红楼》(因不忍黛玉身世凄苦,命如浮萍,故还其一段绝世良缘!本文风格轻松活泼,旖旎幽默,略有香艳,不喜者请绕行!)金玉之缘成就,王夫人却并不放过黛玉,王嬷嬷五十万买了黛玉一条命。昏聩中的黛玉,被送上与茜香三皇子的和亲轿子,当她清醒之后,面对已成的事实,该何去何从!她要嫁与的这个痴傻王爷,却是一个极品男人,表面上又痴又傻,无赖又淘气,处处戏弄她;另一面却是魅惑无比,霸道邪邪。黛玉面对这样一个双重身份的男子,是如何与之周旋的,慧质兰心如她,面对天真阳光口口声声唤自己娘子的他,另一个邪肆俊美,专横霸道的他,黛玉到底爱上的是哪一个?当事实真相浮出水面,揭开他面具下那张颠倒众生的脸时,又该如何面对他的解释!片断一:“我想知道林黛玉是个什么样的女子,竟然甘心嫁给一个傻子?”面具下一双魅惑的长眸戏谑地看着她,黛玉不由秀眉紧蹙:“这与你什么相干,又不是嫁给你,阁下未免管得太宽了吧?”对方倏尔一笑,欺上身来:“你怎知以后不会成为我的女人!”
  • 警察情怀

    警察情怀

    再看《长街风景》。“阳光,刀子一样刺眼”,这个比喻很有意思,写得很有感觉。这是因为,我们平日里看到太阳的时候,都有过这样的感觉。接下来作者写长街,写长街的所见与所闻。快乐的,喧闹的,开店的,闲逛的,耍猴的,很有商业的气息。在我感觉作者将要把一首诗歌写俗的时候,却看到这样的语言:“没有掌声/只有越敲越响的耍猴锣声/笼罩长街尽头/忧郁凝重狐疑的心情/化作长街沉重的叹息”。原来,前面的所有表述,都是为了这个升华做的铺垫。作者这样的写作,无疑是成功的。这一首诗歌,写出了一种深度,同样,作者也表达出一种内在的、深入的、探索性的诗意。
  • 人生运势500问2

    人生运势500问2

    继《人生运势500问》后,编者推出了它的姊妹篇《人生运势500问Ⅱ》,希望在前一本的基础上能给大家带来更多更实用的改变运势的知识。本书辑录了择吉、生肖、姓名学、风水学、星座学五大部分内容。 本书沿用问答形式,分类整理,辅以丰富的图表,针对每一个问题进行详细的解答。内容涉及健康、财富、职场、交际、性格等诸多方面,让读者从科学角度看到一个更新、更全的运势学,使读者能更客观、更理性地面对人生中的各种问题,提前对各种问题做好准备,趋利避害,用更豁达开阔的眼光看待生活、改变运势。
  • 幽冥仙君

    幽冥仙君

    无根树,花正偏,离了阴阳道不全。金隔木,汞隔铅,孤阴寡阳各一边。世上阴阳男配女,生子生孙代代传。顺为凡,逆为仙,只在中间颠倒颠。……这是一个写作“鬼仙人”,读作“可止小儿夜啼”的故事。(《幽冥仙君》书友群:476994705)
  • 花枝招展(肆)

    花枝招展(肆)

    有了房子,人就像蜗牛有了遮风挡雨的壳子。可不同的是,人的壳子上还开了一些个口子,不仅可以让别人窥视到你,同时还能让你窥视到别人,你窥视过别人吗?又被人窥视过吗?
  • 寻花

    寻花

    “就着车灯小小的光亮,我们如船行大海般,仿佛被一种奇异的力量牵引着,缓慢而艰难,却又从容地,在这广阔而不知的世界中,一路向前。”“在那片浩瀚的黑暗中,我又想到了你,往事如鲜花开满原野。”为了一顿午餐的邀请,她曾经跋涉1643公里去赴约,那天过后,他像夏天的雨滴,消失得无影无踪,生死不明。他们习惯在远行时,有彼此的灵魂守望,好像绳索的两端,一边坠落,另一边也将永堕黑暗。于是她再次出发,向滇藏而行,盼望在苍莽天地间,重见他熟悉的面容……
  • 佛说九横经

    佛说九横经

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 血雨焚花之幽蛮路1

    血雨焚花之幽蛮路1

    天有不公,当有重生时,定覆灭天地。他叫魏宇,当他新生时,觉得走一条不一样的路,一条幽蛮路。