228 - The Book of Enoch: Fallen Angels and the Modern Crisis
The Symbolic World
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Men of Renown in Ancient Mythology
Any ancient mythology has a sense in which the origin of their civilization, of their great cities, were demi gods. That is, they were half god, half man and that usually their father was a god and their mother was a human. And so this appears in every culture. Here we have an image of gilgamesh, of course, and ercules that are these powerful men that were very terrifying. We always have to remember that when the old world talks about these demigods and these heroes, they're not talking about heroes the way we understand heroes to day,. but are really talking about heroes in the sense of these very powerful, terrible beings.
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