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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: discussion of this subject, see The Great Law of religious
origins, by W. Williamson, ch. iv.)
Apuleius in The Golden Ass gives an interesting account
of his induction into the mysteries of Isis: how, bidding
farewell one evening to the general congregation outside, and
clothed in a new linen garment, he was handed by
the priest into the inner recesses of the temple itself; how
he "approached the confines of death, and having trod on
the threshold of Proserpine (the Underworld), returned
therefrom, being borne through all the elements. At
midnight I saw the sun shining with its brilliant light:
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