... . Light released by the sun takes roughly eight minutes to reach Earth, thus the observer sees the event after it has happened. Likewise, if we witness the destruction of a star tonight, the star has been dead for millions of years. Objects or events have and absolute coordinate in space, but their coordinate in time is not absolute. Mosher states: Since Plato, time ... were just spoken instead of related to me years ago. Symbols are important in magikal workings. Masonry utilizes several star symbols. The most relevant to our study is a five-pointed star surrounded by a circle. Dependin...

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... and desires to escape the dead learning in which he is embedded (and as scholar, embodies). We shortly after see Faust marvel over the sign of the Macrocosm (six pointed star signifying the cosmos in its metaphysical entirety), indicating this desire to know deeper things about the nature of existence, he says of it thus: "Ah-what enchantment at the sight ... the ethical problems seemed to him! How questionable the treatment of the myths! How uneven the distribution of happiness and unhappiness!" (Nietzsche p59 1999) That is, Euripides, looking though the eyes of Socratic reason, could ...

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