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The beheading of John the Baptist read psychologically: John, the man of three dimensions, loses his head, his three-dimensional focus, so that Jesus, the fourth-dimensional self, may live; to assume oneself Christ is a bold step and a kind of death.
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John, the man of three dimensions is beheaded, or loses his three-dimensional focus that Jesus, the fourth-dimensional Self may live