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effects--the arts, sciences, classics,
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languages--'til you were both able at least to conceive of a state of
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being where the mind knows the source of all light."
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So, the religious education that Zooey's response to Franny comes out
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of, is precisely not a doctrinally specific Christian education.
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Rather, it's something more like a Buddhist tradition,
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a syncretic, mystical tradition.
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The idea is that there is some state of being with God.
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Knowledge, all the arts and sciences, literature, all of the religious
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writings of the world are manifestations of that voice that at
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its origin is God saying, "Let there be light."
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It's the voice of creation.