Thread: we have seen Bronze Age is an era of integrated energies of nature/men/gods: men read signs in nature and hear voices of Gods to orient them in world, Modern era devoid of animation from Spirit

Contrast Bronze Age with a few others: Greek Gods and monsters are truly *in* the world! Gods on Mount Olympus, Herodotus name location of River Styx, Jason encounter monsters across Black Sea. All real places.

Christ and Mohammed say divine not in world, is far away place outside world even outside mind! Must strive to achieve, is not place you can go, Gods voice is not in world, God is “word” in Book, only decipherable by Divine Prophet!

Athenian Greece degraded by Socratic rationality, Nietzsche tell is this! Socrates de-animates world with rationality! He ask: why it rains! Is told: Gods make rain. He say: then why no rain if no clouds? Natural process, not divine intervention

Pre-Socratics say world made up of physical elements, Plato say made up of transcendental forms that exist in same place as Christian heaven: inaccessible to consciousness or living man.

Spengler discuss this. Early culture in touch with nature, world is animated. He say Urban culture “appreciation” for nature “color wash.” Is artificial! Rational “megalopolitan man” incapable of experiencing world as self-animated place of integrated divinity

Christianity URBAN religion, Greek Philosphy: URBAN philosophy. Hopelessly materialistic. This why @bronzeagemantis say portal closed to you, Aetna boring smoke and heat

We are Spenglers megalopolitan man, concerning with quantities and “facts,” contemplates world and existence. Bronze Age man concerned with one thing, and it not Something conscious, is something lived: DESTINY