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66 - The Anthropology of Mysticism

The Symbolic World

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Is There a Split in the Heart?

In the heart is as if there's a little heaven and a little earth in the heart already, says Diadokus of Photiki. St. Maximus talks about how man's purpose is to unify heaven and earth. The problem happens when they, when there's a split, when it breaks apart, right? And we see that right there in the, in the story of, of Genesis, because it starts with a desire to be God,. So you've got this split. That's not what we were meant to be.

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