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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: into Christ's Holy Church, and be made a lively member of the
same." That, is to say, there is one birth, after the
flesh, but a second birth is necessary, a birth after the
Spirit and into the Church of Christ. Our Confirmation
Service is simply a service repeating and confirming
these views, at an age (fourteen to sixteen or so) when the
boy or girl is capable of understanding what is being done.
But our Baptismal and Confirmation ceremonies combined
are clearly the exact correspondence and parallel
of the old pagan ceremonies of Initiation, which are or
have been observed in almost every primitive tribe over
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