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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: hardly aware of its existence. Their gaze turned outwards is
held and riveted by the gigantic figures and processions
passing across their sky; they are unaware that the
latter are only shadows--silhouettes of the forms inhabiting
their own minds.[1] The vast majority of people have
never observed their own minds; their own mental forms.
They have only observed the reflections cast by these.
Thus it may be said, in this matter, that there are three
degrees of reality. There are the mere shadows--the
least real and most evanescent; there are the actual
mental outlines of humanity (and of the individual), much
 Pagan and Christian Creeds |