Digest whorl.v007.n026Whorl

Something that I didn't see at all in the archives when I went through them (I just got onto the list): St. Francis of Assisi, early in his career, had a vision telling him to "rebuild my church", and spent a while, first trying to beg stones from passer-by, and then actually working himself on rebuilding an old and decayed church building, before he figured out that what God wanted was a spiritual reform, which become the Franciscan Order. (There's a fair amount about this in G. K. Chesterton's biography of Francis.) The thought crossed my mind shortly after Silk started talking about how the Outsider wanted him to "save the manteion": "Boy, Silk, are YOU in for a surprise; the Outsider wants something much, much larger." Tony Z Special Collections Librarian & Archivist E-mail: tzbarasc at lasierra.edu La Sierra University Et vocavit Deus, "Fiat lux!"