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from the vulgar view. That being so, the records of the life of Jesus would naturally receive some colouring from the views of the writers themselves, some of whom must have been in close touch with the teachings of the numerous occult institutions, the Lodges of the Essenes, the Nazarenes, and the like, which appear to have flourished in the land at the time.
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