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"A Serjeant is a soldier with a halbert, and a drummer is a soldier with a drum." – Thomas Denison, Lloyd v. Wooddall (1748),
"What is light to us is darkness to certain insects, and the eye of the clairvoyant sees illumination where the normal eye perceives only blackness." – H.P. Blavatsky, "The Secret Doctrine Volume I — Cosmogenesis" (1888)
"A soldier of the civil authority must be taught not to kill men and to refuse to do so if he is commanded. ... If he is unwilling to comply, he must be rejected. A military commander ... must resign or be rejected. If a catechumen or a believer seeks to become a soldier, they must be rejected, for they have despised God." – Hippolytus of Rome
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