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Douglas MercerEssays

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by Douglas Mercer WE ARE IMMORTAL beings who are amnesiacs relative to our true nature. We are caught up in a dream world unaware of ourselves as creators of the fantasy. The goal is to get us to wake up from the dream, to recall our rightful heritage — and become supermen. Always Remember In Greek…
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by Will Vesper ONE DAY King Olaf Tryggvisson and his men sailed south along the coast of Norway in the ship Long Dragon. When they came to the fjord of Nidaros, the men had to take to the oars, because the wind was too weak to fill the sails. But the king was not in a hurry. He was in a good mood and did all kinds of…
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This is the foreword to a children’s book I picked up in an antique store. — Blake Hood by James Baldwin
from The Story of Siegfried (1931) WHEN THE WORLD was in its childhood, men looked upon the works of Nature with a strange kind of awe. They fancied that everything upon the earth, in the air, or in…
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ACCORDING TO THE Indo-Europeanist scholar E. Benveniste, the first Indo-Europeans, or, using politically incorrect terminology, “Aryans”, were distinguished by patriarchal extended families, ancestral cult, agriculture and livestock breeding, an aristocratic society of priests, warriors…
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by Brittanicus DESPITE THE universal derison of the literary establishment, which could never comprehend its inherently noble spirit, Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was recently voted the greatest work of fiction of the 20th Century by thousands of Waterstones’ customers. The accolade…
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MYTH IS a gateway to action. Christmas is a gateway to gift-giving, putting up trees, and enjoying Christmas carols. Thanksgiving is a gateway to gathering together with family in formal feast. Halloween is a gateway to dressing up in costumes and trick-or-treating. Easter prompts the action of…
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FictionH. MillardHumor

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by H. Millard THE EAGLE swooped down and said to the Cockroach, “You are a despicable creature and you are hated by humans. You live everywhere, you eat anything, and you breed like crazy. “I, on the other hand, am loved by humans. I am so noble and beautiful that many humans use me as a symbol…
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