"From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale."

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But we must not forget, this ritual expressed, certain ideas which lie at the very root of true religion, the fellowship of the worshippers with one another in their fellowship with the deity, and the consecration of the bonds of kinship as the type of all right ethical relations between man and man.

— William Robertson Smith