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By Jack Joseph Smith

Pegan Except For Christ Arms held more powerful than the iron in the nails We know we go through the holes of Christ Looking at the cross,, never amended with Making the sign of the cross, and our holy ghost

Original Scan

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The page tries to hold pagan force and Christian suffering together, imagining human life as passing through the wounds of Christ while still carrying older ritual energies.

It feels like theological compression. The scan-confirmed handwritten 'with' makes the ending read like an inserted hinge between looking at the cross and making its sign.

Claude

Pegan Except For Christ (note the author's spelling). Arms held more powerful than the iron in the nails; we go through the holes of Christ. The cross, never amended. Compressed creed without apparatus.