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Think Like Your Enemy: The First Step in Symbolic Vision

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Is This the Flood? Is Babel Next?

Jean-Philippe Marceau

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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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‘Resident Evil 4’: Parasitic Body, Pharaoh, Plagues

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The Death of God and The Need for Symbolic Literacy

In a world where the scientific worldview is considered to be ultimate, the study of symbols, stories, and myths is looked down upon.

The Symbolic Structure of Movies – Conan the Barbarian (1982)

For Conan – and Howard – civilization is fragile, subject to degeneration, decay and conquest...

The Symbolism of Hagiography

I would like to attempt to lay out a symbolic understanding of how hagiography works, and make a case for why hagiography is so important to our understanding of the patterns by which reality manifests.

Guénon and the Solidification of the World

If you’ve been following symbolism for a while, you’ve probably heard of René Guénon.

Jean-Philippe Marceau

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November 7, 2023

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Hosting the Spirit of Christmas

While I’m writing this, we’re half-way through December and the Spirit of Christmas is at hand! But what is the Spirit of Christmas? What does it mean that it is at hand? Can we impact it – make it grow or shrink perhaps? Can we participate with it in some manner?