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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: be raised up in him: grant that all carnal affections may
die in him, and that all things belonging to the Spirit may
live and grow in him!" Can we doubt that the Australian
medicine-man, standing at the graveside of the re-arisen old
black-fellow, pointed the same moral to the young initiates
as the priest does to-day to those assembled before
him in church--for indeed we know that among
savage tribes initiations have always been before all things
the occasions of moral and social teaching? Can we doubt
that he said, in substance if not in actual words: "As
this man has arisen from the grave, so you must also arise
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