"Is that your eagle, Theo?"
Theo laughed. "No, it's St. John's," he said.
"St. John's?"
"You know the four Evangelists have signs?" Theo said. "St. John has the eagle, which was said to fly unblinded towards the sun, because he is the one who looked longest and deepest at Christ on earth and into the mystery of his being when he went back into his glory."
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"And what's St. Luke, Theo?"
"St. Luke is a Bull."
"How queer! Why?" Matt asked.
"I'm not sure," said Theo. "Perhaps because the Bull is a sign of life: the zodiac bull comes in the spring, you know. He's the sign of generation and Christ is the regenerator of Man, and his sacrifice of his own life was made in the spring. He said himself that the seed must die to bring up the new corn. The signs are symbols of mystery: they let you look through the doors but they don't tell you everything at once. You can never know everything there is to know, that's why we shall be happy for ever in heaven if we get there."
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