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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: everyone.
Anyhow, and as a matter of fact, the world-wide dissemination
of the legend is most remarkable. Zeus, Father
of the gods, visited Semele, it will be remembered, in the
form of a thunderstorm; and she gave birth to the great
saviour and deliverer Dionysus. Zeus, again, impregnated
Danae in a shower of gold; and the child was Perseus, who
slew the Gorgons (the powers of darkness) and saved
Andromeda (the human soul[1]). Devaki, the radiant Virgin
of the Hindu mythology, became the wife of the
god Vishnu and bore Krishna, the beloved hero and prototype
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