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Symbols
The corruption of Christian civilization’s symbols is a centuries old phenomenon, yet until the modern age, the
mutations and inversions, along with the making of new diabolic symbologies, remained on the fringes of society
in secret societies and small esoteric cults. Now the culture of the cults is visible everywhere, and with the
Harry Potter series, is entering (and capturing) the mainstream. Through it, the corruption of symbols has moved
to a new level of influence, and it has done so on a scale that is unprecedented in the history of literature.
If we lose the language of true symbolism, we lose at a basic level of consciousness our way of knowing things
as they are. Symbols are not items in some storage room or attic of the psyche that we can take up and discard
at will, or rearrange without consequences. To tamper with them is to destabilize the very foundations of the house.
Whilst most Christians would never knowingly exchange symbols of evil for symbols of good, many have accepted a
new realm of eclectic symbology that allows a mixture of good and evil symbols to influence their thoughts and
feelings. But two contradictory symbol worlds cannot long remain in a state of peaceful co-existence within us.
Either one or the other will come to dominate and will eventually demand the expulsion of the other.
Michael O’Brien
From the new book, Harry Potter and the Paganization
of Culture.
Preface to
Harry Potter and the
Paganization of Culture
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