Archive for September, 2004

Inner & Outer Mysteries

Monday, September 27th, 2004

I just found a very good article about mystery religions. The point of the article is to show how Satanism qualifies as a mystery religion, and he makes that point fairly well. The thing that he focuses on is what is called the inner vs. the outer mysteries.
Basically, what that means is that most […]

Using Stories As Sacraments

Monday, September 27th, 2004

One of the things I’m the most interested in is the connection between stories and religion. I’m very interested in how people construct systems of religious belief by clothing themselves in certain sets of symbols and accompanying story-systems. Basically, how do people make use of stories to construct and guide their life… something along those […]