Kindly remove your shoes, honored reader; we stand on holy ground.

Enter this sacred temple. Let us reverently approach the altar.

Do you know the temple of which I speak? Do you detect the magic that gushes through your veins, that permeates your cells, that animates your every act?

Lean in closely. I will whisper the word -- the force -- that both redeems and damns, that elevates and debases, creates and destroys, that builds men and nations and dashes them to dust.

The temple in which we stand, this altar we approach, the holy ground that sustains humanity, the magic, the power, the word is this: