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Celebration of castration. We know of the travails of Origen, who took Matthew literally. The evangelist discusses eunuchs 19 12 and establishes a typology for them born without testicles, castrated later by others, or self-mutilated in honor of the Kingdom of God and concludes, He who is able to receive this, let him receive it. Crafty. Origen cut to the heart of the matter, slicing off his genitals with a blade probably before realizing that desire is less a question of one's sack than of...
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Solving the woman problem. Should we discern the logical consequence of hatred for intelligence in the hatred for women common to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam According to the holy books, original sin, error, the desire for knowledge, all stem from the decision of one woman, Eve. Adam was an innocent fool, content to obey and submit. When the serpent speaks nothing wrong with that . . . don't all snakes speak he addresses the woman and starts a dialogue with her. In the Koran, the tempter...
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Birds of Paradise. This world outside the world produces two creations of fantasy the angel and paradise. The angel functions as a prototype of anti-man. Paradise functions as antiworld, inciting humans to detest their condition and despise their reality in order to aspire to another essence and then to another existence. The angel's wing symbolizes the opposite of man's earthbound condition. In contrast to our own imperfect planet, paradise promises atopia, Utopia, uchronia that is, a land...
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Seeking the opposite of the real. As we might expect, these impossible bodies live in an equally impossible place the walled-in Garden of Paradise. Pentateuch, Genesis, and Koran all affirm the existence of this hysterically conceived geography. But Muslims offer us its most perfect description. It is worth a visit Streams, gardens, rivers, springs, budding meadows, magnificent fruit and drinks, great-eyed houris always virginal , gracious young people, beds galore, superb garments, luxurious...
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