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For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for…
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Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to…
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Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his…
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It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that…
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The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes…
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The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils…
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The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent…
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Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A…
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As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food…
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In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can…
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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
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For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for…
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In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed…
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Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious…
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of…
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