Light Does Not Come From Light, But

It Is Not Without Fear And Trembling That A Historian Of Religion Approaches The Problem Of Myth. This Is Not Only Because Of That Preliminary Embarrassing Question: What Is Intended By Myth? It Is Also Because The Answers Given Depend For The Most Part On The Documents Selected.

Psychoanalysis Justifies Its Importance By Asserting That It Forces You To Look To And Accept Reality. But What Sort Of Reality? A Reality Conditioned By The Materialistic And Scientific Ideology Of Psychoanalysis, That Is, A Historical Product.

Whether Religion Is Man-made Is A Question For Philosophers Or Theologians. But The Forms Are Man-made. They Are A Human Response To Something. As A Historian Of Religions, I Am Interested In Those Expressions.

The Sacred Tree, The Sacred Stone Are Not Adored As Stone Or Tree; They Are Worshipped Precisely Because They Are Hierophanies, Because They Show Something That Is No Longer Stone Or Tree But Sacred, The Ganz Andere Or 'wholly Other.'

Light Does Not Come From Light, But From Darkness.