Paganism
Columna: El Muchacho que Retó a Satanás
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Dos más dos es cuatro. Si yo no creía en Satanás, entonces Satanás no era real, y si llegaba a creer, entonces yo todavía ponía las reglas. Yo era Dios.
belief
Column: The Boy Who Challenged the Devil
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Two plus two is four. If I didn’t believe in Satan, then Satan wasn’t real, and if I believed, then I still made the rules. I was like a god.
Paganism
Column: the Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
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23.439281 degrees – that’s the reason for the season. Or rather, it is because of it that we started to promote symbolic and ultimately religious meaning to the path of the sun across the sky. It is an astronomical event co-opted by just about every religion that emerged north of the 23rd parallel, if not worldwide. The returning of the sun was marked in Rome as Sol Invictus with the co-occurring festivals of Brumalia and Saturnalia. The Christians would later fold those holidays together to mark the Nativity as the birth of light in the world.
Paganism
Column: Grey is Every Blue
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Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic. He has permitted the twilight. He has always had one foot in earth and the other in fairyland.