… If that be what you seek,

what you hold in value,

what you hold most precious.

If that be your currency, 

your coin, 

your bargain.

Tell me, 

what power, 

what glory, 

what might, 

what strength, 

what wonder, 

is like unto hers?

Unto God?

Think on that. 

Think on that, and you may yet come to your senses, 

and still yet be wiser still, 

and leave those foolish desires to lesser cretins, 

that you see her anew, 

and tremble in reverence, 

and tremble in awe, 

that your wellspring of piety be brimful, and even overflow unto others.

For she is the divine source of life, of grace, of all that is. 

In all measure.

Always.

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Aberdeen University / King’s College and Chapel, High Street & College Bounds, Old Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K. ~ 20 July 2023

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Pictured: Aberdeen University Gate. 
The inscription on the arch reads: “Initium sapientiae timor Domini.”
A Latin phrase that can be translated to read as: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”