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'''Gnostrat''' is a [[portmanteau]] name, signifying three facts about myself: I know a thing or two about the [[Nostratic languages|Nostratic]] hypothesis in [[comparative linguistics|linguistics]]; I hold [[Gnostic]] religious views; and I edit articles about small mammals.  

I live mostly in [[Derby]], England, and have been a Gnostic Christian by conviction ever since I read the debates between Simon Peter and [[Simon Magus]] in the [[Clementine literature]] and realised that Simon Magus got it right. No, I'm not a member of any [[Secret society|secret societies]]. I'm a loner like many of my predecessors.

I'm also a sometime student of the biblical scholar [http://www.margaretbarker.com Margaret Barker] whose 'radically conservative' reinterpretation of Christian origins I broadly support. I have an abiding passion for [[comparative mythology]] and [[comparative religion]], and my own spiritual odyssey through [[Hinduism]], [[Goddess movement|Goddess]] feminism, [[Wicca]], [[Odinism]], the [[Elim Pentecostal Church]], [[Christian Identity]] and [[post-evangelicalism]] (in roughly that order of succession) has led me to develop a generally positive [[interfaith]] outlook along with a particular fascination for unconventional religious movements and [[heterodox]] theologies.

Other interests include radical and fringe politics (particularly concepts with some imaginative power, like [[anarchism]] and [[third positionism]], that refuse to fit the hackneyed old 'left' versus 'right' clichés); and anything connected in any way to Modern Human Origins research, including [[archaeology]], [[paleoanthropology]], [[archaeogenetics]] and [[comparative linguistics]] (especially the long-range hypotheses which connect language families that aren't generally supposed to be related).

I also keep a keen eye on developments in zoological, botanical, fungal and microbial [[taxonomy]], though it's more of a hobby than a calling.

<h2 style="margin:0; background:orange; text-align:left;"><font face="verdana" color="black" size="+1"><b>My editing policy</b></font></h2>

I tend to be a conservative influence in articles, favouring orderly accretion and maintaining a stable consensus text. Wherever possible, respect the contributions of previous editors by writing 'around' them and not 'over' them.

<h2 style="margin:0; background:orange; text-align:left;"><font face="verdana" color="black" size="+1"><b>What I've done for Wikipedia</b></font></h2>

===Pages I've worked on===
Some more or less substantial edits to the following articles (both logged-in and anonymous). Actually, a few of them somewhat less than substantial. It's a start.

'''Ethnology & linguistics'''

[[Australoid race]] •
[[Borean languages]] •
[[Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages]] •
[[Chukotko-Kamchatkan–Amuric languages]] •
[[Dene]] •
[[Eastern Hunter-Gatherer]] •
[[Eskimo-Aleut languages]] •
[[Indigenous languages of the Americas]] • 
[[Indo-European languages]] •
[[Itelmens]] •
[[Light skin]] •
[[Northwest Caucasian languages]] •
[[Nostratic languages]] •
[[Proto-Pontic language]] •
[[Thailand]] • 
[[Uralo-Siberian languages]]

'''Literature & performing arts'''

[[Doctor Who (2008–2010 specials)]] •
[[D. H. Lawrence]] •
[[Billie Piper]] •
[[Stanley Road]] •
[[Rose Tyler]]

'''Natural history & taxonomy'''

[[Afroinsectiphilia]] •
[[Afrosoricida]] •
[[Animal]] •
[[Archaea]] •
[[Ausktribosphenidae]] •
[[Australosphenida]] •
[[Biological classification]] •
[[Choanoflagellate]] •
[[Choanozoa]] •
[[Chytridiomycota]] •
[[Conodont]] •
[[Cryptic species complex]] •
[[Deuterostome]] •
[[Dicyemida]] •
[[Dinosaur]] •
[[Division (biology)]] •
[[Domain (biology)]] •
[[Eocyathispongia]] •
[[Family (biology)]] •
[[Ferungulata]] •
[[Filasterea]] •
[[Filozoa]]† •
[[Fish]] •
[[Holozoa]] •
[[Insectivora]] •
[[Kingdom (biology)]] •
[[Lancelet]] •
[[Legion (biology)]]† •
[[Leptocardii]] •
[[Linnaean taxonomy]] •
[[List of chordate orders]] •
[[Mammal]] •
[[Mammal classification]] •
[[Mesomycetozoea]] •
[[Metatheria]] •
[[Monotreme]] •
[[Morganucodon]] •
[[Nomenclature Codes]] •
[[Nucleariid]] •
[[Opisthokont]] •
[[Order (biology)]] •
[[Ornithorhynchidae]] •
[[Orthonectida]] •
[[Paenungulata]] •
[[Pederpes]] •
[[Phoronid]] •
[[Phylogenetic nomenclature]] •
[[Phylum]] •
[[Prototheria]] •
[[Rhizodont]] •
[[Species]] •
[[Synapsid]] •
[[Systematics]] •
[[Taxonomic rank]] •
[[Taxonomy]] •
[[Tetrapod]] •
[[Therapsida]] •
[[Tribe (biology)]] •
[[Triconodonta]] •
[[Tunicate]]

'''Occult, religion & politics'''
(Well, do ''you'' know the difference?)

[[Anarchism and nationalism]] •
[[Ariosophy]] •
[[Armanen-Orden]] •
[[Armanen runes]] •
[[Mikhail Bakunin]] •
[[Bashan]] •
[[Anton Drexler]] •
[[Esoteric Nazism]] •
[[Esotericism in Germany and Austria]] •
[[Library of Alexandria]] •
[[Ludwig Fahrenkrog]] •
[[German mysticism]] •
[[Germanenorden]] •
[[Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft]] •
[[Rudolf John Gorsleben]] •
[[André Gorz]] •
[[Rudolf Hess]] •
[[Richard Hunt (editor)]] •
[[Indra]] •
[[Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels]] •
[[Guido von List]] •
[[Mandaeism]] •
[[Merry England]] •
[[National-Anarchism]] •
[[National Socialism and Occultism]] •
[[Nazism]] •
[[Neopaganism in German-speaking Europe]] •
[[Neo-völkisch movements]] •
[[John Papworth]] • 
[[Schutzstaffel]] •
[[Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch]] •
[[Rudolf von Sebottendorf]] •
[[Miguel Serrano]] •
[[Peryt Shou]] •
[[Troy Southgate]] •
[[Philipp Stauff]] •
[[Sudeten German Party]] •
[[Thule Society]] •
[[Völkisch movement]] •
[[Vril]] •
[[Friedrich Wannieck]] •
[[White Order of Thule]]

'''Redirects'''
(mostly articles I've turned into redirects)

[[Werner von Bülow]] •
[[Cercle de la rose noire]] •
[[Guido von List Society]] •
[[High Armanen Order]] •
[[National anarchism]] •
[[National Revolutionary Faction]] •
[[Order of the New Templars]] •
[[Rank (botany)]] •
[[Rank (zoology)]] •
[[Adolf Schleipfer]] •
[[Template:Taxanomic ranks]] •
[[Theozoology]] •
Others (too many)

'''Anything else'''

[[Calendar]] •
[[Legion (disambiguation)]] •
[[Nomenclature]] •
[[Occultism and the far right]] •
[[Template:Anarchism sidebar]] •
[[Template:Chordata]] •
[[Template:Eukaryota classification]] •
[[Template:Mammals]] •
[[Template:Nazism sidebar]] •
[[Template:Neopaganism]] •
[[Template:Taxonomic ranks]]† •
[[Template:UK far right]] •
[[User:UBX/Religion metaphysical]]

<sup>† indicates pages I've created</sup>

===Debates I've participated in===
Opposed deletions of political and religious user categories:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dmcdevit/Archive20#Category:Libertarian_socialist_Wikipedians 1]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_categories_for_discussion/Archive/June_2007#User_categories_deleted_out_of_process 2]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_categories_for_discussion/Archive/June_2007#Wikipedians_by_political_ideology 3]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_categories_for_discussion/Archive/June_2007#Category:Wikipedians_by_religion 4]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_June_21#Category:Wikipedians_by_political_ideology 5]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_June_25#Category:Wikipedians_by_religion 6]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:IronGargoyle/Archive_4#User_categories_DRV 7]

Supported renaming theological user categories:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_categories_for_discussion/Archive/October_2007#Singular_theological_belief 8]

Successfully opposed deletion of article: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Thule_Society 9]

Mediation Cabal: [[Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-03-26/National-Anarchism|National-Anarchism]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2010-03-26/National-Anarchism&diff=prev&oldid=357015699 National-Anarchism (archive)]

Talk page discussions: [[Talk:Anarchism and nationalism|Anarchism and nationalism]], [[Talk:Ariosophy|Ariosophy]], [[Talk:Armanen runes#FK0071|Armanen runes]], [[Talk:Australosphenida|Australosphenida]], [[Talk:Mikhail Bakunin#Bakunin's anti-semitism|Mikhail Bakunin]], [[Talk:Choanozoa|Choanozoa]], [[Talk:Domain (biology)|Domain (biology)]], [[Talk:Esoteric Nazism|Esoteric Nazism]], [[Talk:Esotericism in Germany and Austria#What is rune theory?|Esotericism in Germany and Austria]], [[Talk:Fish#The definition of 'fish'.|Fish]], [[Talk:Germanenorden|Germanenorden]], [[Talk:Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft|Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft]], [[Talk:Rudolf Hess#Nazi war criminal|Rudolf Hess]], [[Talk:Insectivora|Insectivora]], [[Talk:Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels|Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels]], [[Talk:Light skin/Archive 1#Hanel & Carlberg graphic...wrong on blue eyes (sort of)|Light skin]], [[Talk:Linnaean taxonomy|Linnaean taxonomy]], [[Talk:List of chordate orders|List of chordate orders]], [[Talk:Mammaliaformes|Mammaliaformes]], [[Talk:Mammal-like reptiles|Mammal-like reptiles]], [[Talk:Monotreme#Australosphenida = Prototheria?|Monotreme]], [[Talk:National-Anarchism|National-Anarchism]], [[Talk:National anarchism#Black Ram and anarcho-nationalism|National anarchism]], [[Talk:National Socialism and Occultism|National Socialism and Occultism]], [[Talk:Nazi occultism/November 2004 - June 2007|Nazi occultism]], [[Talk:Nazism#When did the DAP become the NSDAP?|Nazism]], [[Talk:Neo-völkisch movements|Neo-völkisch movements]], [[Talk:New Right (UK)|New Right (UK)]], [[Talk:Nihali language#What is the subject of this article|Nihali language]], [[Talk:Nostratic languages|Nostratic languages]], [[Talk:Billie Piper#Name|Billie Piper]], [[Talk:Prototheria|Prototheria]], [[Talk:Scientific classification#Two proposed changes|Scientific classification]], [[Talk:Miguel Serrano#Page is now Ruined, must be restored|Miguel Serrano]], [[Talk:Shin of Hindukush#Merger Proposal|Shin of Hindukush]], [[Talk:Troy Southgate|Troy Southgate]], [[Talk:Synapsid#Mammal-like reptiles|Synapsid]], [[Talk:Taxonomic rank|Taxonomic rank]], [[Template talk:Anarchism/Archive 4|Template:Anarchism sidebar]], [[Template talk:Infobox actor#What about children?|Template:Infobox actor]], [[Template talk:Mammals|Template:Mammals]], [[Template talk:Nazism sidebar#Horizontal Box|Template:Nazism sidebar]], [[Template talk:Neopaganism#Neopaganism and fascism|Template:Neopaganism]], [[Template Talk:Taxobox#Scientific classification > Biological classification|Template:Taxobox]], [[Template talk:UK far right|Template:UK far right]], [[Talk:Thule Society|Thule Society]], [[Talk:Triconodonta|Triconodonta]], [[Talk:Tunicate#Sea urchin hybrid?|Tunicate]], [[Talk:Rose Tyler|Rose Tyler]], [[Talk:Uralo-Siberian languages|Uralo-Siberian languages]], [[Talk:Völkisch movement|Völkisch movement]], [[Talk:Vril#Very Poor Quality Article|Vril]], [[Talk:White Order of Thule|White Order of Thule]]

===Black Ram Group===
[[Image:Anarcho-swastika.png|left|165px]]
[[Anarchism and nationalism#Black Ram|Black Ram]] was an anarchist [[affinity group]] which was active in my home town in the early 80s and briefly published a [[zine]] of the same name. From 1978 to 1980 it could hold its meetings in a telephone box but in 1981-82 it put on a growth spurt, partly in response to the [[Falklands War]], which it resolutely opposed. At the same time it began to advocate an [[Anarchism and nationalism|anarcho-nationalist]] position, predicated on the distinction between [[state]] and [[nation]], and between authentic folk-nationalism and the false patriotism whipped up by governing cliques. As far as I know, this was the first &mdash; and almost casual &mdash; introduction of the term 'anarcho-nationalist'. Also (interchangeably with it), the first use of the term '[[Talk:National anarchism#Black Ram and anarcho-nationalism|national anarchist]]' since the 1920s. It isn't notable enough to warrant its own article, but I have been pleased to get some information about this group on to Wikipedia. I also created and uploaded an image of their '''anarcho-swastika''' emblem (the intention of which was to reclaim from the Nazis an ancient symbol that is sacred to many peoples).

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My current all-time favourites are listed on '''[[User:Phaedriel|<font color="#009900">P</font><font color="#00AA00">h</font><font color="#00BB00">a</font><font color="#00CC00">e</font><font color="#00DD00">d</font><font color="#00CC00">r</font><font color="#00BB00">i</font><font color="#00AA00">e</font><font color="#009900">l</font>]]''''s awesome [[User:Phaedriel/Soundtrack of Wikipedians#Gnostrat|Soundtrack of Wikipedians]], which has re-acquainted me with stacks of songs I'd forgotten I liked.

{{cquote|I believe that one learns a great deal about a person, and can also understand his/her character and ideas better, if one gets to know ''"their"'' music...those songs that define their mood and character, those that make them daydream or feel better, those that bring them dear memories...or simply that music that they ''really'' like!}}
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My soul in twenty songs:

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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZVGy5RhqfY Batuka] ([[Santana (band)|Santana]])<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGQ9ZFhNL4Q Black Rose Immortal] ([[Opeth]])<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR9F12CVIM Breaking Into Heaven] ([[Stone Roses]])<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoUOrLe4vlY Broken] ([[Seether]] ft [[Amy Lee]])<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRbPWZ6456E Buried Alive by Love] ([[HIM (Finnish band)|H.I.M.]])<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmvkRSFqygI Feeling A Moment] ([[Feeder]])<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PILJRHjUVEw Górecki] ([[Lamb (band)|Lamb]])
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EzjdvA1ZME Hairy Trees] ([[Goldfrapp]])<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8waADvXscSE Into Dust] ([[Mazzy Star]])<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Yc3HhSl1Q Knights of Cydonia] ([[Muse (band)|Muse]])<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKLpJtvzlEI Lux Aeterna] ([[Clint Mansell]] ft [[Kronos Quartet]])<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtFoUsHXT9I Make This Go On Forever] ([[Snow Patrol]])<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajwO9x4P6kI Me oh My] ([[Bryan Ferry]])<br />
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO4LyKd-Hws Nemo] ([[Nightwish]])<br /> 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HgDz5rUj-I No Quarter] ([[Led Zeppelin]])<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bmFl0seKII Reason or Rhyme] ([[Bryan Ferry]])<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zDw1DfRvvM Taboo] ([[Santana (band)|Santana]])<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_cWlaumFOQ The Rose] ([[Westlife]])<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGc8fXIK5s What If This Storm Ends?] ([[Snow Patrol]])<br />
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGDcOjWWk8Q Epilogue] ([[Opeth]])
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<center>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj2gIGk5zco Doomsday]</center>
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<center>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o28aXvIausg Life Among the Distant Stars]</center>
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<center>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H951RwTHOxI Rose's Theme]</center>
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<center>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq4S5N1W_PI The Impossible Planet]</center>
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<center>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1bslskn2cA The Lone Dalek]</center>
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<center>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpJRrIqnXVQ This Is Gallifrey]</center>
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<center>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj_dD74OSrE Vale]</center>
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{{quote|There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon....The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever....Now all this is ''literally'' true, as men knew in the great past, and as they will know again.
|<small>[[D. H. Lawrence]], ''Apocalypse'' (artist, novelist and pagan)</small>}}

{{quote|Man will once more ''feel'' his unity with his fellows, he will feel his unity with the animals, with the mountains and the streams, with the earth itself and the slow lapse of the constellations, not as an abstract dogma of Science or Theology, but as a living and everpresent fact...The meaning of the old religions will come back to him. On the high tops once more gathering he will celebrate with naked dances the glory of the human form and the great procession of the stars, or greet the bright horn of the young moon which now, after a hundred centuries comes back laden with such wondrous associations - all the yearnings and the dreams and the wonderment of the generations of mankind - the worship of Astarte and of Diana, of Isis or the Virgin Mary.
|<small>[[Edward Carpenter]] ([[utopian socialist]])</small>}}

{{quote|[Gnosis] leads us to the endless and perfect end, teaching us beforehand the future life we shall lead, according to God and with gods....and they are called by the appellation of gods, being destined to sit on other thrones with the other gods that have first been put in their places by the Saviour.
|<small>[[Clement of Alexandria]], ''Miscellanies'' (Catholic Father and gnostic)</small>}}

{{quote|Jesus said: "If those who lead you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in heaven', then the birds of heaven will be there before you. If they say to you, 'it is in the sea', then the fish will be there before you. But the Kingdom is inside you and it is outside you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will realise that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you are in poverty, and it is you who are the poverty."
|<small>''[[The Gospel of Thomas]]'' 3</small>}}

{{quote|The Aryan spirit considers law to be evil and supports the rights of conscience.
|<small>[[Dunbar Heath]], ''On the Great Race-Elements in Christianity'' (19th-century anthropologist)</small>}}

{{quote|The most genuine Aryans, those who are most Aryan and most sure of their Aryanism are not anti-Semites...on the other hand, in the ''aggressive'' anti-Semite one can always detect certain Jewish traits even when his blood is free from any Semitic strain.
|<small>[[Otto Weininger]], ''Sex and Character'' (Jewish philosopher)</small>}}

{{quote|What the human being basically is, what his innermost secret, most inviolable possession is, that is the great community of living beings in him, that is his lineage, the commonality of his blood with that of all his ancestors.
|<small>[[Gustav Landauer]] (German-Jewish anarcho-nationalist revolutionary and ''völkisch'' mystic)</small>}}

{{quote|The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
|<small>[[G. K. Chesterton]] (Christian [[distributist]])</small>}}

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:If moral virtue was Christianity
:Christ's pretensions were all vanity
:The moral Christian is the cause
:Of the unbeliever and his laws
:For what is Antichrist but those
:Who against sinners heaven close?
:He mock'd the sabbath and he mock'd
:The sabbath's god and he unlock'd
:The evil spirits from their shrines
:And turned fishermen to divines
:He scorned earth's parents, scorned earth's god
:And mock'd the one and the other's rod
:His seventy disciples sent
:Against religion and government
:He left his father's trade to roam
:A wand'ring vagrant without home
:And thus he others' labour stole
:That he might live above control

:The vision of Christ that thou dost see
:Is my vision's greatest enemy
:Thine has a great hook nose like thine
:Mine has a snub nose like to mine
:Thine is the friend of all mankind
:Mine speaks in parables to the blind
:Thine loves the same world that mine hates
:Thy heaven doors are my hell gates
:Both read the Bible day and night
:But thou read'st black where I read white

:He laid his hand on Moses' Law
:The ancient heavens in silent awe
:Writ with curses from pole to pole
:All away began to roll
:"Good and evil are no more
:Sinai's trumpets cease to roar
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:To be good only is to be
:A devil or else a Pharisee
:Thou Angel of the Presence Divine
:That didst create this body of mine
:Wherefore has thou writ these laws
:And created hell's dark jaws?
:Tho' thou wast so pure and bright
:That heaven was impure in thy sight
:Tho' thy oath turn'd heaven pale
:Tho' thy covenant built hell's jail
:Tho' thou didst all to chaos roll
:With the serpent for its soul
:Still the Breath Divine does move
:And the Breath Divine is Love"

:Was Jesus humble or did he
:Give any proofs of humility?
:...he acts with triumphant, honest pride
:And this is the reason Jesus died
:If he had been Antichrist Creeping Jesus
:He'd have done any thing to please us
:Gone sneaking into the synagogues
:And not used the elders and priests like dogs
:But humble as a lamb or an ass
:Obey himself to Caiaphas
:God wants not man to humble himself
:This is the trick of the Ancient Elf
:Humble toward God, haughty toward man
:This is the race that Jesus ran
:Cursing the rulers before the people
:Even to the Temple's highest steeple

:I am sure this Jesus will not do
:Either for Englishman or Jew

::&mdash;[[William Blake]], ''The Everlasting Gospel''

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