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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: living or dead, and restores errant individuals through
the Sacrifice of the hero and the Forgiveness of their sins;
and we have the belief in a bodily Resurrection and continued
life of the members within the fold of the Church
(or Tribe), itself regarded as eternal.
One has only, instead of the word 'Jesus,' to read Dionysus
or Krishna or Hercules or Osiris or Attis, and instead
of 'Mary' to insert Semele or Devaki or Alcmene
or Neith or Nana, and for Pontius Pilate to use the name
of any terrestrial tyrant who comes into the corresponding
story, and lo! the creed fits in all particulars into the
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
