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239 - Jordan Hall and John Vervaeke - Egregores, Mobs and Demons

The Symbolic World

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What's the Participatory Relationship?

The devil wants to be the totality of all things, an it in himself, let's say, and not participate in something bigger than him. Saint maximus talks about sins of the right hand and sins of the left hand. And so you have this movement from one to the other - rooted in the idea of not participating in a great whole but wanting to just exist as itself. The defining feature of them, i would put it to you, is their incapable of evolution. They are incapable of that movement that is constitutive of life,. without ever claiming to have a totality.

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