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The main problem with symbols is that people tend to get lost in the symbol\u2026. You should not lose the message in the symbol. The message is always of the spirit, and when the symbol is taken to be the fact\u2026, you\u2019ve mistaken the message.\n~ Joseph Campbell\n\nA German anthropologist made an important distinction (according to Joseph Campbell) when he realized that in religions throughout the world the same themes and images recur; he called them \u201cElementary Ideas.\u201d But he also saw that wherever they occurred,\nthey were in different costumes and provincial interpretations, which he called \u201cFolk or Ethnic Ideas.\u201d\n~ Adolf Bastian\n\nDeities are symbolic personifications of the very energies that are of yourself. These energies that are of yourself are the energies of the universe. And so the god is out there and the god is in here.\nThe Kingdom of God is within you, yes, but it\u2019s also everywhere.\n~ Joseph Campbell