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The High Altar
Volume 1, entries 2759. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → SHRINES: ALTARS - CANDLES - SAINTS; NEW ORLEANS AREA → (1) ALTARS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 2759
(Now, in your place of business, do you use an altar in your work?)
No, I didn't. I never did have that. I don't need no altar because my altar, which is myself, is in my brain - you see, because I was gifted for that. (Were you born in Louisiana, though?) Born in Louisiana and I'm over in McDonoghville, over the river. [Quoted from No. 860, p.301.] [Most doctors are gifted - see To Become a Doctor, I Was Gifted, p.273, and Doctor in Index. My words your place of business. How untactful to a man who could be worshipping at an altar! I mean worship, because altar in hoodoo is a religious object for a true believer. What a remarkable answer he gives - proclaiming the dignity and divine origin of man!]