Skafloc reflects:
"Was Freda - was the White Christ of whom she had told a little - not right in saying that wrongs only led to more wrongs and thus at last to Ragnarok; that the time was overpast when pride and vengefulness give way to love and forgiveness, which were not unmanly but in truth the hardest things a man could undertake?" (p. 132)
The New Testament can be seen as fulfilling not only the Law and Prophets but also:
Virgil's Fourth Eclogue;
the transformation of the Furies into the Kindly Ones;
the mighty lord who comes on high, all power to hold, all lands to rule, in Voluspa 65.
A Christian missionary interviewed on British TV said that, in China, he learned of a mythological figure, the Old Grandfather, then identified this being with God the Father! You have to start somewhere.
Everything is the Old Testament if we see it that way.
"David's words with Sybil's blending..."
1 comment:
The problem with love and forgiveness is that they have to be mutual. Otherwise you're just delivering yourself to your enemies.
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