Ed Simon
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“these people of millennia past were not like us but with more dirt. Their beliefs were different, their prayers were different, their faith was different, their very thoughts were different, and yet we still live within their long shadows.”
― Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
― Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
“A transmutation of flesh into words, of matter into ideas, of man into metaphor, but nonetheless an ever-shifting symbol,”
― Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
― Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
“Gnostics were austere and stoic rejectors of this world and its prince, understanding everyday life to be a Faustian bargain. To eat, to sleep, to work, to procreate, to live, to exist, to be—all of it was to give over a measure of your life to the Demon who had tricked us into worshiping him as the Lord. Our being itself is Faustian.”
― Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
― Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
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