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that the arbitrary and conventional character of the designation “father” is
thus clearly visible to all (Lerner and Mahdi 1963, 124–25).
12. Remarkably enough, in the imaginings of the adherents
of the law, this very abasement becomes a means to effecting an unprecedented
closeness to the first principle of all things.
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