Fearful Symmetry Chapter 2. The Rising God
Author: Northrop Frye Publisher: Publish Date: Review Date: Status:⌛️
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The Greek word for revelation is “apocalypse,” and the climax of Christian teaching is in the “Revelation” or Apocalypse at the end of the Bible which tells us that there is an end to time as well as a beginning and a middle, a resurrection as well as a birth and a death; and that in this final revelation of the unfallen world all mystery will vanish: John’s symbol is the burning of the Great Whore who is called Mystery. Such a revelation involves the destruction of the present world, when the sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood and the stars will fall from heaven like ripe figs. It moves on to a new heaven and earth (i.e., an earth renewed or revealed in the form of heaven), in which the chaos of nature becomes our own garden, as in Paradise, a world no longer continuously perceived but continually created: