Concisus Numinism/Symbolism

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Symbolism

Visual Symbolism

Visual symbolism is the means of communicating complex ideas through simplistic means. Take the cataclysmic circle, for example. It is exceedingly easy to draw, involving two lines and two differently colored spheres, but it communicates the origin of reality, the nature of time, the duality itself. Often the heathen is too caught up in his own lies to recognize anything other than the simple. Show him basic symbols, and build up to complex ideas. Even a child may understand the circle.

Anecdotal Symbolism

Anecdotal symbolism is another way in which we may convert heathens through simple mechanisms. For example, we may prove the existence of the duality through a number of simple anecdotes.

First, it is man's natural position to write from left to right. This demonstrates the necessity of the duality: without the right, the left has no meaning, but without the left, the right has no context. What is there to protect without creation?

This predisposition can also be seen in children. All children are largely peaceful by nature - obviously they tussle in the dirt, but the thoughts of conquest, of destruction, of zealotry cannot cross their minds. As people progress with age, they tend towards the right, until they reach old age where they are, again, peaceful - they reach another line, so to speak.