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... myth - making ceremonies.227 The separate cults of education , transportation , and mass communication promote , under different names , the same social myth which Voeglin228 describes as contempo- rary gnosis . Common to a gnostic ...
... myth - making ceremonies.227 The separate cults of education , transportation , and mass communication promote , under different names , the same social myth which Voeglin228 describes as contempo- rary gnosis . Common to a gnostic ...
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... myth has fulfilled the function of setting limits to the materialization of greedy , envious , murderous dreams . Myth assured the common man of his safety on this third frontier if he kept within its bounds . Myth guaranteed disaster ...
... myth has fulfilled the function of setting limits to the materialization of greedy , envious , murderous dreams . Myth assured the common man of his safety on this third frontier if he kept within its bounds . Myth guaranteed disaster ...
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... Myth to Respectful Procedure Primitive people have always recognized the power of a symbolic dimension ; they have seen themselves as threat- ened by the tremendous , the awesome , the uncanny . This dimension set boundaries not only to ...
... Myth to Respectful Procedure Primitive people have always recognized the power of a symbolic dimension ; they have seen themselves as threat- ened by the tremendous , the awesome , the uncanny . This dimension set boundaries not only to ...
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