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How does this song fit as something a Christian might listen to?

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    How does this song fit as something a Christian might listen to?

    "O FLEETING SHADOW! Pass beyond the baser stages of doubt and rise to the exalted heights of certainty. Open the eye of truth, that thou mayest behold the veilless Beauty and exclaim: Hallowed be the Lord, the most excellent of all creators! "

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    I see nothing wrong with it - it's archaic in language but that's not a real problem.

    Repeating it fifteen times will lose the 'could praise music please have more substance' crowd - I fall in the middle but this isn't one of the praise songs I find musically interesting enough to put up with the repetition.

    It looks like it was taken from a medieval or Renaissance writer and put to music.

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    • #3
      Sounds rather Gnostic to me, except for the last word, which even they wouldn't countenance. There is only one Creator. The rest of the vaguely anti-material mumbo-jumbo doesn't much matter, but that sticks out.
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      • #4
        Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
        Sounds rather Gnostic to me, except for the last word, which even they wouldn't countenance. There is only one Creator. The rest of the vaguely anti-material mumbo-jumbo doesn't much matter, but that sticks out.
        Hmmm...
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        • #5
          Originally posted by Teallaura View Post
          I see nothing wrong with it - it's archaic in language but that's not a real problem.

          Repeating it fifteen times will lose the 'could praise music please have more substance' crowd - I fall in the middle but this isn't one of the praise songs I find musically interesting enough to put up with the repetition.

          It looks like it was taken from a medieval or Renaissance writer and put to music.

          The lyrics are from "The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh".

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Scrawly View Post
            Thanks.



            Okay, I retract my previous statement - even as P&W this has major issues.


            I think my brain crashed...
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            • #7
              Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
              Sounds rather Gnostic to me, except for the last word, which even they wouldn't countenance. There is only one Creator. The rest of the vaguely anti-material mumbo-jumbo doesn't much matter, but that sticks out.
              I stand somewhat corrected. Some Gnostics (Valentinians) believed in 'creator angels'.
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