Escape from EvilFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Denial of Death, a penetrating and insightful perspective on the source of evil in our world. “A profound, nourishing book…absolutely essential to the understanding of our troubled times.” —Anais Nin “An urgent essay that bears all the marks of a final philosophical raging against the dying of the light.” —Newsweek “Brilliant and challenging…adds another bit of reason to balance destruction…It is, in the best sense of the words, both scientific and philosophical…of the highest importance.” —Los Angeles Times |
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Page 21
... invisible as did children , etc. All he wanted to do , with the tech- nique of sacrifice , was to take possession of these invisible forces and use them for the benefit of the community.21 He had no need for missile launchers and atomic ...
... invisible as did children , etc. All he wanted to do , with the tech- nique of sacrifice , was to take possession of these invisible forces and use them for the benefit of the community.21 He had no need for missile launchers and atomic ...
Page 46
... invisible mystery . It erupts out of nature in storms , volcanoes , meteors , in springtime and newborn babies ; and it returns into nature in ashes , winter , and death . The only way we know it is there is to see it in action . And so ...
... invisible mystery . It erupts out of nature in storms , volcanoes , meteors , in springtime and newborn babies ; and it returns into nature in ashes , winter , and death . The only way we know it is there is to see it in action . And so ...
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... invisible powers of nature to bear on his visible well - being . Well , the divine king sums up this whole cosmology all in himself . He is the god who receives offerings , the protagonist of light against dark , and the embodi- ment of ...
... invisible powers of nature to bear on his visible well - being . Well , the divine king sums up this whole cosmology all in himself . He is the god who receives offerings , the protagonist of light against dark , and the embodi- ment of ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
12 | 32 |
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