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Is This the Flood? Is Babel Next?

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September 23, 2025

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Becoming in the Ruins: Myth, Theosis, and Symbolic Collapse in ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’

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Heaven and Earth

The following is a translated and transcribed version of a french podcast recorded in March 2021 by Jonathan Pageau and Jean-Philippe Marceau. Thanks to Norm Grondin for the translation, transcription and edition.

Jean-Philippe Marceau

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November 7, 2023

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Religious Symbolism and the Modern City, Part Two: Capitalism and Corporations

The previous part of this article accounted for the evolution of the city in the West since the sixteenth century, a period loosely described as ‘modernity’ since it succeeds the medieval period, the Protestant Reformation, and the Renaissance.

A Statute Forever: Reading Leviticus 16 Symbolically.

Leviticus 16 details the various rituals to be performed on the Day of Atonement. God begins his instructions by telling Moses that Aaron, as the priest, is not to enter the inner part of the Tabernacle whenever he wants (Lev. 16:2).

On the Symbolic Meaning of Domes, part five

They built the cathedral intending to have a dome, but they didn’t have functional plans for one. A public contest was held, and while competition was fierce, Filippo Brunelleschi beat out his old rival Lorenzo Ghiberti for the commission of building the dome.