The Simple Point Is That

Man Lives, Not Directly Or Nakedly In Nature Like The Animals, But Within A Mythological Universe, A Body Of Assumptions And Beliefs Developed From His Existential Concerns.

Culture's Essential Service To A Religion Is To Destroy Intellectual Idolatry, The Recurrent Tendency In Religion To Replace The Object Of Its Worship With Its Present Understanding And Forms Of Approach To That Object.

In Our Day The Conventional Element In Literature Is Elaborately Disguised By A Law Of Copyright Pretending That Every Work Of Art Is An Invention Distinctive Enough To Be Patented.

We Have Revolutionary Thought Whenever The Feeling "life Is A Dream" Becomes Geared To An Impulse To Awaken From It.

The Primary And Literal Meaning Of The Bible, Then, Is Its Centripetal Or Poetic Meaning.