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310 Harmless Souls practice, with the full 'logic' of internalisation coming to the fore only for those to whom external ascetic practice is already second nature. To put it another way, it may be the case that external practice itself represents the path to inner purity for the laity and less advanced ascetics, while for the ideal ascetic it is merely the outer sign of an already achieved inner state. In this fashion the recurrent ambiguity of ritual is demonstrated, for the question of whether it is instrumental or expressive is not answered: it is simply ambiguous.
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