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Above all, the mystery cults of the ancient world provided man with a god on which he could have a hold. The god was individuated enough to be a person, born hierophanically by a real bull or goat or pig, physically slaughtered, and physically consumed, or symbolically by means of real substitutes, identified with the forces of nature, […]
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This disquieting insight may also give rise to the exhilarating possibility that there may be a transcendent realm outside of the physical, visible world of everyday existence, which can periodically manifest itself hierophanically in moments of gnosis.
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Under no circumstance should we be dismissive of spectators and critics who find these films more satisfying, more hierophanically potent or real. Individuals coached into a high-literate mode of textual engagement may be understandably equating quiescence and quietude with the sacramental.
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In this passage, the natural elements hierophanically explicate a display of divine action in Creation and disclose somewhat of the nature of the one God, here with emphasis on God's creative powers and omniscience.
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