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The Mirror of Life and Death

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This book suggests ‘that the basis of life is in timeless and universal Being, which becomes projected for evolutionary purposes into the space-time world of existence’.

Artist / Author Laurence J. Bendit
Reference P1588
Date 2006
Type Publication

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