The Power and Spiritual Deprivation of Symbolic Knowledge

symbol (n.) early 15c., “creed, summary, religious belief,” from Late Latin symbolum “creed, token, mark,” from Greek symbolon “token, watchword, sign by which one infers; ticket, a permit, licence” (the word was applied c. 250 by Cyprian of Carthage to the Apostles’ Creed, on the notion of the “mark” that distinguishes Christians from pagans), literally “that which is thrownContinue reading “The Power and Spiritual Deprivation of Symbolic Knowledge”

The Dark Magic of Modern Language

Language exists on a spectrum, just like light or sound. On one side of the spectrum, we have the light, and on the other, we have the dark. Regardless, the idea of language as a spectrum is very foreign to the way we use language today, in the 21st century. We mostly think of  languageContinue reading “The Dark Magic of Modern Language”