(May 23, 2018 at 11:26 pm)Khemikal Wrote: If I don;t grant you your own "symbolism" you'd get real pissy real quick, now wouldn;t you?
Only suggesting that if your own lines of rationalization in this long..long thread are compelling to you...then they should be compelling to you...but they;re not..and is it surprising that they aren;t compelling to us, then?
In any case, the people who wrote your magic book were heavily influenced by it, you;d find many of the themes familiar...as I;ve mentioned previously in thread. The psychopomp, pageantry, and professions of virtue and faith are lifted very nearly word for word. We know why..and we know when it happened.
Often in the Bible the symbology is explained within the pages as the Bible interprets itself.