Sublime

« “Dieu est mort” – Nietzsche. “Nietzsche est mort” – Dieu. » Le philosophe n’a fait cette déclaration ni par narcissisme ni par triomphalisme. Il redoutait que les valeurs judéo-chrétiennes qui servaient de fondations à la civilisation occidentale soient soumises à une dangereuse critique rationnelle et que l’axiome principal sur lequel elles

This means that Nietzsche was wrong: “God” is not actually dead but changing the way that “He” wishes to be perceived. Nor is it true that “Pan is dead.” Instead, Pan lives within the depths of the psyche as the archetypal “goat god” behind our passion for nature, for play, for joy in sex. “Aphrodite” lives as the force that patterns the way we

the very division between monotheism and polytheism is in many cases a confusion of categories. Several of the religious cultures that we sometimes inaccurately characterize as “polytheistic” have traditionally insisted upon an absolute differentiation between the one transcendent Godhead from whom all being flows and the various “divine” beings

Throughout Islamic history, there have been a number of women who have struggled to maintain their authority as both preservers of the hadith and interpreters of the Quran.

She explained that an externality was not irrelevant, but, rather, uncounted—a consequence without a cost.

Foundation stories: religion, time and politics

As he says, in a note in the Black Books, Abraxas is the uniting of the Christian God with Satan.106 It’s reincorporating evil into the Godhead. It’s the great theme of Answer to Job.