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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: They must have been established in Antioch and probably
in Tarsus well before the days of Paul or Apollos. Their
Savior, like the Jewish Messiah, was established in men's
minds before the Savior of the Christians. 'If we look
close,' says Professor Bousset, 'the result emerges with
great clearness that the figure of the Redeemer as such did
not wait for Christianity to force its way into the religion
of Gnosis, but was already present there under various
forms.' "
[1] Four Stages, p. 143.
This Gnostic Redeemer, continues Professor Murray, "is
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