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Why do demons disappear when you die?

And yet humans leave these nasty skeletons behind.

We've been our children back.

Welcome to the Authority, Sl's His Dark Materials Podcast.

It's season 1, episode 3, The Spies.

We're Slate's resident scholars of experimental theology.

I'm Laura Miller and my demon is a sea otter named

Sasaki. I'm Dan Koyce and my demon is a prairie vole named Gilda. Hi Laura.

Hi, Dan. Now in this episode Lyra is captured by the gobblers and then almost immediately rescued

by the Egyptians who take her into their fold as they travel to a beyond roping, if that's the correct

pronunciation, I have no idea, which is a big gathering to discuss

what the Egyptians plan to do about their kidnapped children.

Episode 3 takes us up to the end of part 2 of the book The Golden Compass, showing us the power of the

magisterium in the form of jackbooted thugs who tear apart Jordan College and invade

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