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Greenmantle

CHAPTER TWELVE
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Only no one seemed to use it.
'But by and by I discovered that there was an inner and an outer circle in this mystery.

Every creed has an esoteric side which is kept from the common herd.

I struck this side in Constantinople.

Now there is a very famous Turkish _shaka_ called _Kasredin_, one of those old half-comic miracle plays with an allegorical meaning which they call _orta oyun_, and which take a week to read.

That tale tells of the coming of a prophet, and I found that the select of the faith spoke of the new revelation in terms of it.


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