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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: their sins atoned for?
Simaetha, it will be remembered, in the second Idyll of
Theocritus, curses her faithless lover Delphis, and as she
melts his waxen image she prays that HE TOO MAY MELT.
All this is of the nature of Magic, and is independent of and
generally more primitive than Theology or Philosophy. Yet
it interests us because it points to a firm instinct in
early man--to which I have already alluded--the instinct
of his unity and continuity with the rest of creation, and
of a common life so close that his lightest actions may cause
a far-reaching reaction in the world outside.
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