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are identical only with our bodies, as Epicureans believed, and modern materialists assert,18 the immortality of the soul’s divine airs shall entice us to soar beyond materialism’s ways. Until the far-off epoch the enigma of enigmas may be resolved, the idea of the immortal soul shall dwell in the heart of believers, dualists and neo-platonists, for the Spirit-Word shall always soar beyond the Matter-Word, just as Faith shall always soar beyond Reason’s ways.
The Matter-Word of the times proclaims the mundane. Its salvation desecrates the soul, the cosmos, and humanism’s temple. It impels us to chant, in unison, the syllables of their omniscient discourse: united are we, indeed, neither in God nor in Christian Church, nor in synagogue, nor in any temple of genuine, universal compassion and love, but in Visa Infinity and Wal-Mart, Costco, Starbucks and Home Depot. In these we trust. Yes, as citizens of the New World Temple, we must worship the new eidolon: the transnational. It is no longer Antiochus’ Zeus that desecrates God, or God that desecrates Zeus, but that we desecrate humanism and its majestic potentiality. United are we, indignados of the world, not in a spiritual debt to Christ, but in a mortgage debt to the Bank! Will the Banking institution crucify itself for us? Will its tellers defend the Word? Will it redeem our mortgages and debt just as governments bail financing institutions, corporations, and pundits out? Our New Covenant
18 Taylor, Richard. Metaphysics. 4th Edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1991. 14 ff.
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