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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: origin and in their various forms a common expression. Of
this great World-religion, so coming down, Christianity
is undoubtedly a branch, and an important branch. But
there have been important branches before; and while
it may be true that Christianity emphasizes some points
which may have been overlooked or neglected in the Vedic
teachings or in Buddhism, or in the Persian and Egyptian
and Syrian cults, or in Mahommedanism, and so forth, it is also
equally true that Christianity has itself overlooked or neglected
valuable points in these religions. It has, in fact, the defects
of its qualities. If the World-religion is like a great tree, one
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