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The Path of the Stump

"Who has made me live in the Earth, who has thrown me into the body-stump?… My eyes, which were opened from the abode of light, now belong to the stump. My heart, which longs for the Life, came here and was made part of the stump. It is the path of the stump, the [gods] will not let me go my own path. How I must obey, how endure, how must I quiet my mind!"

(Mandaen hymn, from Hans Jonas’ the Gnostic Religion, p.67, pub. 1958)

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