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<h2>THE HIGHER PANTHEISM<br/> IN A NUTSHELL</h2>
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<span class="i0">One, who is not, we see: but one, whom we see not, is:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Surely this is not that: but that is assuredly this.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">What, and wherefore, and whence? for under is over and under:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">If thunder could be without lightning, lightning could be without thunder.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Why, and whither, and how? for barley and rye are not clover:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Neither are straight lines curves: yet over is under and over.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Two and two may be four: but four and four are not eight:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Fate and God may be twain: but God is the same thing as fate.<br/><</span></div>
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<span class="i0">Ask a man what he thinks, and get from a man what he feels:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">God, once caught in the fact, shows you a fair pair of heels.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">The soul squats down in the flesh, like a tinker drunk in a ditch.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">More is the whole than a part: but half is more than the whole:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Clearly, the soul is the body: but is not the body the soul?<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">One and two are not one: but one and nothing is two:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Truth can hardly be false, if falsehood cannot be true.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Once the mastodon was: pterodactyls were common as cocks:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Then the mammoth was God: now is He a prize ox.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Parallels all things are: yet many of these are askew:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">You are certainly I: but certainly I am not you.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">Springs the rock from the plain, shoots the stream from the rock:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Cocks exist for the hen: but hens exist for the cock.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">God, whom we see not, is: and God, who is not, we see:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Fiddle, we know, is diddle: and diddle, we take it, is dee.<br/></span></div>
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