The great mystery religions believe that all religious text is allegory, and all reality illusion, and mere shadow of unseen truth - all "layers", if you will, which are a representation of what is unseen in this world of illusion that we live. And these stories, or allegories, can not be understood or "peeled back" except by the those initiated through ritual into the mystery - such religious initiation is not available to the common public person.
This premise is often adopted by modern Pagan-Christianity, as indeed that is its roots, that unless one is taken over by the holy "ghost", and aparition, or mysterious spirit, no truth will be revealed and comprehension never reached. The Bible teaches quite the opposite.
Here is a post from June of last year (I think) - it is rather long - but that's because I could not sleep that night anyway. I see an obvious irony in what the Bibile teaches as compared to modren day religions, and to that effect, I refer to it as "Death by Immortality".
This premise is often adopted by modern Pagan-Christianity, as indeed that is its roots, that unless one is taken over by the holy "ghost", and aparition, or mysterious spirit, no truth will be revealed and comprehension never reached. The Bible teaches quite the opposite.
Here is a post from June of last year (I think) - it is rather long - but that's because I could not sleep that night anyway. I see an obvious irony in what the Bibile teaches as compared to modren day religions, and to that effect, I refer to it as "Death by Immortality".
