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Symbols can make content mysterious, sacred, or divine by functioning as signs from the gods or the spirit world.
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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Mystery makes things sacred and divine; childbirth becomes sacred because it was mysterious, and women become sacred because they give birth.
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"Excuse me? To keep the content mysterious. Okay, that's interesting. Okay? To keep the content mysterious. And so where do these symbols come from?..."
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"...keep the content mysterious, to give it divine or holy or sacred meaning. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. What are some other possibilities?..."
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"So you just have to use a symbol to represent it. Okay? Which means what? Which means that each picture is a mythology. It's..."
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"The geometric signs. So in other words, they went to the spirit world or they think they went into the spirit world and then..."
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"...thing is these symbols are mysterious. Right? And mystery makes things sacred and divine. Right? So back to childbirth. Childbirth is something that back..."
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"Okay? So back then we believed that for most of human history either we were egalitarian meaning like men and women were equal than..."
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"...I rose. The daylight had already filled the circles of the sacred mountain. We were journeying with new sun at our back. I followed..."
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"of that sacred portal, which are of massive and resounding metal, turned in their hinges, then even Tarpeia, when good Metellus were removed from..."
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"...same marble were the cart and oxen as they drew the sacred ark, which makes men now fear tasks not in their charge. They..."
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"...yes and no. And there the humble psalmist went before the sacred vessel, dancing, lifting up his rope. He was both less and more..."
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"...there it is with savage lamentation. Now we ascended by the sacred stairs, but I seemed to be much more light than I had..."
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"...self -indulgent uh so what separates uh a artist like a sacred inwardness"
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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