Ep. 1 Sermon On Ethical Action

Excerpts from Aesthetical Sermons

For this inaugural episode, we hear a sample from the "Sermon on Ethical Action"

Transcription of Joris:

"Do not envy the trees. They are forced to share the company of other trees indiscriminately. A neighborhood of stoic monoliths, a cathedral teeming with wooden clerics. Notwithstanding the lurid nakedness of their boughs in drearier months, they are an aristocratic lot with sugary blood, dressed in whatever is fashionable that season and crowned with gossiping robins, and only entertaining the attention of those capable and willing to endure being blasted with gales or sharing quarters with insects. A condition reserved for saints and not the commonplace of humanity. But we are the commonplace of humanity! Not one amongst us earns the crown of sainthood, not one should dare claim such a title, and if one rises amidst the crowd of mediocrity, declaring himself modeled upon ministerial morality, then rise the gallows and condemn him to a saintly end. For he proclaimed himself envious of the trees and their saintly way of life and must therefore be strung up amongst them."