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orthoclad

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5. I trace much of the suffering in the modern world to

Reply to msongs (Reply #2)

Fri May 22, 2026, 09:30 PM

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the ancient Abrahamic violence.

Biblical monotheism is nothing but the defeat of the female divine principle by the male. The patriarchs of the desert cursed us with an unbalanced culture, divorced from worldly nature and our own internal nature.

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