By Alan Watts
“Our major item should be to explain some of the most incomparably appealing myths that has ever flowered from the brain of guy, or from the subconscious strategies which form it and that are in a few experience greater than man.… this is often, moreover, to be an outline and never a heritage of Christian Mythology.… After description, we will test an interpretation of the parable alongside the final traces of the philosophia perennis, so that it will convey out the actually catholic or common personality of the symbols, and to proportion the satisfaction of gaining knowledge of a fountain of knowledge in a realm the place such a lot of have lengthy ceased to anticipate something yet a wasteland of platitudes.” —from the Prologue
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1 Thus while Jung does not go quite so far as Coomaraswamy in equating the content of myth with that philosophia perennis which has had its honoured place in almost every culture save our own, his theory of the formation of mythical symbols provides us with a reasonable explanation of the process whereby a wisdom of this type could be divined by the unschooled and unsophisticated folk^mind from which those symbols emerge. Indeed, there are ways in which the symbols express their truth more adequately than the more formal and exact language of the doctrine, for the truth in question is not an idea but a realityof'experience so fundamental and alive 1 It is realjy the most astonishing hybris to suppose that the highest wisdom is by the standpoint of conscious reason, for we hardly begin to under/ stand the neural processes without which the very simplest act of reasoning is impossible.
There was never any time when I AM was not; he was not created by anyone, and FROM all eternity there before anything else had been created by him he existed alone which reason he was also through endless ages of ages, for known by name Ancient of Days. In appearance he was not, however, the created light of the sun, moon, the pure light and stars but Shekinah, the Light of Glory. Because man was subsequently created in the image of I AM, the appearance of his Glory was always considered as having the human form.
At the same instant, all the nine choirs or spheres into which they were divided, burst into the exultant hymn which they have never ceased singing to this day. art surrounded by thousands of Archangels and of thousands of Angels, by the Cherubim and Seraphim that are six/winged, full of eyes, and soar aloft on their wings, "Thou tens singing, crying, shouting, and saying "Agios! Agios! Agios! Kyrie Salaotb! Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord of Hosts! Heaven and earth are full of Thy Glory! " 1 Now a real angel is not to be confused with the simpering which a decadent Christian art now shows in creatures Church windows and upon Christmas blonde nighties girls with for "he a flame of fire'*.
