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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: times and were baptized anew--as indeed we know many
relics and images actually were--into the service of the
Church. "Great is Diana of the Ephesians"; and there is
I believe more than one black figure extant of this
Diana, who, though of course a virgin, is represented
with innumerable breasts[1]--not unlike some of the archaic
statues of Artemis and Isis. At Paris, far on into Christian
times there was, it is said, on the site of the present
Cathedral of Notre Dame, a Temple dedicated to 'our Lady'
Isis; and images belonging to the earlier shrine would
in all probability be preserved with altered name in the
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
