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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: world with him. The Greeks called him in this stage 'The
Third One' [Tritos Soter] or 'the Saviour'; and the renovation
ceremonies were accompanied by a casting-off of the
old year, the old garments, and everything that is polluted
by the infection of death."[1] Thus the multiplication
of the crops and the renovation of the tribe, and
at the same time the evasion and placation of death,
were all assured by similar rites and befitting ceremonial
magic.[2]
[1] Gilbert Murray, Four Stages, p. 46.
[2] It is interesting to find, with regard to the renovation of
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