My Fake Plants Died Because I Did Not Pretend to Water Them
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
Intellectual Reference Point Restoration
Topic: “Myth”
🔎 Lexicon containing “Myth”
Definitions and explanations of key terms used throughout the site.
Myth
A traditional narrative that conveys symbolic or spiritual truth rather than literal fact.
💬 Quote Library — containing “Myth”
📖 Excerpts Library
It Affirms, in Effect, That Living Beings Create Themselves
As a scientific theory, Darwinism would have been jettisoned long ago. The point, however, is that the doctrine of evolution has swept the world not on the strength of its scientific merits, but precisely in its capacity as a Gnostic...
Source: Teilhardism And The New Religion by Wolfgang Smith
Every Myth Represents the Absolute Truth Within Its Society
Also, every myth represents the absolute truth within its society. The word ‘myth’ is derived from the Greek word mythos, which can mean ‘story’, but also means ‘word’, in the sense of ‘the final word’. Indeed, anybody who dared to...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
He Believed That the Moon and Stars Were Nothing More than Holes in the Firmament
Anaximander of Miletus argued that the Sun was a hole in a fire-filled ring that encircled the Earth and revolved around it. Similarly, he believed that the Moon and stars were nothing more than holes in the firmament, revealing otherwise...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
Those Who Are the Most Captivated by Its Spell
The study of cosmology shows how our relationship to the universe and our fellow humans is inextricably conditioned by our underlying belief systems and mythologies. As every thoughtful person realizes, the life of each civilization-and every individual-is influenced by underlying...
Source: Jesus Christ, Sun of God by David Fideler
Novus Ordo Seclorum
The new reality they sought was radically secular and stridently simple. The ideal was not the balanced complexity of the new American federation, but the occult simplicity of its great seal: an all-seeing eye atop a pyramid over the words...
Source: Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington
🎼 Song Excerpts
Did We Create a Modern Myth?
Did we create a modern myth? Did we imagine half of it?
That’s How the Story Goes
That's how the story goes
