1 result for (book:tes8 AND session:394 AND stemmed:past)
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(This material had been on her mind for the past few days, to the extent that some physical symptoms of her [Jane’s] own had shown themselves. Questioning on my part, and Jane’s use of the pendulum, told us these symptoms, somewhat annoying and at first puzzling, were related to the above material. Since we learned their cause they have slackened a good deal, but I asked that Seth discuss them in case there was more to be learned here.
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It is indeed what you saw, and has for you a deep meaning. The religious connotation from your past life, given a modern interpretation. (Pause.) The crucifix always appalled you, but not the bare cross symbol.
In the past the crucifix was to you a symbol of the Roman Catholic church, and distasteful. The bare cross to you had a pure Protestant feeling. You did not have, in the past life, any idea of joy connected with religion, however, the cross being then a symbol of death, leading to a Puritan afterlife.
[... 6 paragraphs ...]
This sculp represents more, literally, than your past life’s feeling, since it is, now, a mobile cross. There will be a change of simple relationships within the structure, and of color and texture, to follow. A less balanced but more maneuverable symbol—still based on this structure however.
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