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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: of the magical worship of Bulls and Bears and
Rams and Cats and Emus and Kangaroos, of Trees and
Snakes, of Sun and Moon and Stars, and the spirit of
the Corn in its yearly and miraculous resurrection out of
the ground--there is still the same idea or moving inspiration,
the sense mentioned in the foregoing chapter, the
feeling (hardly yet conscious of its own meaning) of
intimate relationship and unity with all this outer world,
the instinctive conviction that the world can be swayed
by the spirit of Man, if the man can only find the right ritual,
the right word, the right spell, wherewith to move it. An
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