[b]Mircea Eliade
Light does not come from light, but from darkness.[/b]
Next up: where darkness comes from.
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany…One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.
I know, I know: define sacred. If, for example, you are a senior citizen.
The way towards ‘wisdom’ or towards ‘freedom’ is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
Ah, the “real me” again!!
If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.
First, however, in undertaking this task, let’s synchoronize our watches.
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.
Of course he’s only paraphrasing Fixed Jacob.
It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one’s destiny lacks meaning.
If not…terrifying?