“ WITHOUT shedding of blood there is no remission of
sin.”
What does it
mean?
Does it mean
that life which has gone ugly and unliving is sin
and the blood of it must be
spilt?
O spill the blood, not of your firstling lamb, without
spot or blemish,
but
kill the scabbed and ugly lamb, that spreads contagion.
O slay, not the bright proud
life that is in you, that can be happy,
but the craven, the cowardly,
the creeping you, that can only
be unhappy, kill it, the unliving
thing.
O sacrifice, not that which is noble and generous
and
spontaneous in
humanity
but that
which is mean and base and squalid and degenerate,
destroy it, shed its unclean
blood, kill it, put it out of existence.
O shed the unclean, mean,
cowardly, greedy, egoistic, de —
generate blood
and
let mankind make new blood, fresh and bright.