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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: listened to him, and Socrates reasoned with him, and Plato
understood him: that he really said [Greek text which cannot be
reproduced], that when he thought of the lilies of the field and
how they neither toil nor spin, his absolute expression was [Greek
text which cannot be reproduced], and that his last word when he
cried out 'my life has been completed, has reached its fulfilment,
has been perfected,' was exactly as St. John tells us it was:
[Greek text which cannot be reproduced] - no more.
While in reading the Gospels - particularly that of St. John
himself, or whatever early Gnostic took his name and mantle - I see
the continual assertion of the imagination as the basis of all
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