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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: we doubt that this new birth--this third stage of consciousness,
if we like to call it so--has to come, that it is indeed
not merely a pious hope or a tentative theory, but a FACT
testified to already by a cloud of witnesses in the past--
witnesses shining in their own easily recognizable and authentic
light, yet for the most part isolated from each other among
the arid and unfruitful wastes of Civilization, like glow-worms
in the dry grass of a summer night?
Since the first dim evolution of human self-consciousness
an immense period, as we have said--perhaps 30,000 years,
perhaps even more--has elapsed. Now, in the present
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