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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: attention on the body. Frankly they try to define the Self
by the body and all that is connected therewith--that is by
the mental as well as corporeal qualities which exhibit
themselves in that connection; and they say, "At any rate the
Self--whatever it may be--is in some way limited by the body;
each person studies the interest of his body and of the feelings,
emotions and mentality directly associated with it, and you
cannot get beyond that; it isn't in human nature to do so.
The Self is limited by this corporeal phenomenon and doubtless
it perishes when the body perishes." But here again the
conclusion, though specious at first, soon appears to be quite
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