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Page 189
... consciousness ; it remains a passive structure . Its internal violations are gentle and painless— fraternal unions . For all its brevity and fullness , " The Lesson " resides firmly in a world of reinforcing similitude , and the reader ...
... consciousness ; it remains a passive structure . Its internal violations are gentle and painless— fraternal unions . For all its brevity and fullness , " The Lesson " resides firmly in a world of reinforcing similitude , and the reader ...
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... consciousness . " Rightness " and " Wrongness , " identified with their human rep- resentatives , develop a symbiotic antagonism . But the opposing forms become continually more extreme . The power of the White Goddess , maintained only ...
... consciousness . " Rightness " and " Wrongness , " identified with their human rep- resentatives , develop a symbiotic antagonism . But the opposing forms become continually more extreme . The power of the White Goddess , maintained only ...
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... conscious reading situation rather than in a self - righteous global war where we die in ignorance - the end of time need not be also the end of consciousness . The alternative apocalypse - already written on the flesh sheets of our ...
... conscious reading situation rather than in a self - righteous global war where we die in ignorance - the end of time need not be also the end of consciousness . The alternative apocalypse - already written on the flesh sheets of our ...
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ONE Introduction | 3 |
the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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