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HAIR SHAVEN FROM CROWN OF THE HEADA symbol of contrition for the shortcomings of the lower nature, and a sign of fervent desire to contact the Source of Truth and Power. For it is not the wearing of beards and the dressing in long gowns that makes people philosophers neither does the linen surplice and the shaven crown make votaries of Isis but the real Isiacist is he that is competent to investigate by the aid of the Word the symbolism and the ceremonies connected with these duties after he has been lawfully empowered so to do and who meditates upon the Truth which is involved in them – PLUTARCH Isis and Osiris § 3 In the Catholic and the Buddhist Churches the tonsure marks the passage from the worldly to the religious life – H OLDENBERG Buddha p 321 |
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