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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: suffering or by the sacrifice of victims. There arose too
a whole catalogue of ceremonies--ceremonies of Initiation,
by which the novice should learn to keep within the good
grace of the Powers, and under the blessing of his Tribe
and the protection of its Totem; ceremonies of Eucharistic
meals which should restore the lost sanctity of the common
life and remove the sense of guilt and isolation; ceremonies
of Marriage and rules and rites of sex-connection, fitted to
curb the terrific and demonic violence of passions which
else indeed might easily rend the community asunder.
And so on. It is easy to see that granted an early stage
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