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There were now some cultured folk among them, who collected
his saying into the GOLDEN BOOK. He decided to limit his disciples to
the "Sacred Number 63," and to call them "Little White Cows." Asked why
he chose this title, he answered that cows were pure and useful animals
without which humanity could not live; even so were his disciples. The
innate good sense of this speech increased his reputation. About this
time, too, he would sometimes prophesy, and undergo long periods of
motionless self-abstraction. At the end of one of these latter, after
tasting no food or drink for three and a half hours, he gave utterance
to what was afterwards known as the First Revelation. It ran to this
effect: "The Man-God is the Man-God, and not the God-Man." Asked how he
arrived at so stupendous an aphorism, he answered that it just came to
him. There were troubles in the neighbourhood over the audacity of this
utterance; some called it a divine inspiration, to the majority it was
known as the Unnamable Heresy.


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