🔁🖼 «The pantheon of Divinities is a circle of masks which the ineffable and unknowable Divine tries on and, upon choosing one, in an absolutely...

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«The pantheon of Divinities is a circle of masks which the ineffable and unknowable Divine tries on and, upon choosing one, in an absolutely credible and fully-fledged way becomes it, i.e., becomes a specific Deity and its mythos that fascinate peoples and enchant unions of epopts.

People peer into the masks of the Deities and put them on. The Divine also peers into its masks, but, unlike man, puts it not on its “face,” but onto everything exterior, simultaneously creating this exterior and leaving the center empty. This is somewhat similar to the notion of how a Deity manifests itself in the world and in so doing renders itself manifest (ποίησις), reflected in nature, traditions, language, and the people who invoke, pray to, and praise it. The Divinities, then, are in essence Being’s visions of itself in various mythos-generating manifestations. From here we come to the recognition that all being(s)-as-a- whole (Seiende-im-Ganze, the cosmos, totally everything) is, in the light of any monistic ontotheology erected around and from any known Deity, none other than the manifestation of one or another mask. The world, nature, and we ourselves are a mask turned around and facing us. The faces and enigmas of the Divine are the manifest world. But this cosmic mask hangs over the void of the Nothing…

When the mask is removed, the world literally disappears. Fear of death is fear of the mask that the Divine removes in order to put it in front of itself and to look (theoresis—teatron) into its empty eye sockets where its eyes used to be. Meanwhile, the human being looking into the mask’s empty eye sockets sees himself as the Divine contemplating itself from out of the depths.»

— Askr Svarte, Towards Another Myth: A Tale of Heidegger and Traditionalism

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