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Stăpânul nostru, al tuturor, este astăzi Războiul, începu din nou Ştefan. El a confiscat întreaga istorie contemporană, timpul în care am fost ursiţi… - Mircea Eliade
" "Stăpânul nostru, al tuturor, este astăzi Războiul, începu din nou Ştefan. El a confiscat întreaga istorie contemporană, timpul în care am fost ursiţi să trăim. Europa întreagă trăieşte ca un monstruos automat, pus în mişcare de veştile lansate în fiecare minut de sutele de posturi de radio, de ediţiile speciale ale ziarelor, de convorbirile între prieteni... Chiar când rămânem singuri, tot la Război ne gândim, adică, tot sclavii Istoriei suntem. Teroarea evenimentelor este nu numai umilitoare pentru fiecare dintre noi, ca fiinţe umane, dar este, în cele din urmă, sterilă. Nimic nu se alege din acest contact permanent cu Istoria; nu ne îmbogăţim cu nimic, nu descoperim nimic care să merite într-adevăr să fie descoperit...
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About Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (13 March 1907 {O.S. 28 February} – 22 April 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. His most enduring and influential contribution to religious studies was possibly his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply record or imitate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them.
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"It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming, death, and ressurection; the waters, plants, woman, fecundity, and immortality; the cosmic darkness, prenatal existence, and life after death, followed by the rebirth of the lunar type ("light coming out of darkness"); weaving, the symbol of the "thread of life," fate, temporality, and death; and yet others. In general most of the ideas of cycle, dualism, polarity, opposition, conflict, but also of reconciliation of contraries, of coincidentia oppositorum, were either discovered or clarified by virtue of lunar symbolism. We may even speak of a metaphysics of the moon, in the sense of a consistent system of "truths" relating to the mode of being peculiar to living creatures, to everything in the cosmos that shares in life, that is, in becoming, growth and waning, death and ressurrection."
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