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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: most mistrustful of this congregating tendency. To gather together
is to purchase a benefit at the price of a greater loss, to
strengthen one's sense of brotherhood by excluding the majority of
mankind. Before you know where you are you will have exchanged the
spirit of God for ESPRIT DE CORPS. You will have reinvented the
SYMBOL; you will have begun to keep anniversaries and establish
sacramental ceremonies. The disposition to form cliques and exclude
and conspire against unlike people is all too strong in humanity, to
permit of its formal encouragement. Even such organisation as is
implied by a creed is to be avoided, for all living faith coagulates
as you phrase it. In this book I have not given so much as a
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