Symbolism
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Parables . . . are multidimensional. The actors in them can be seen as aspects of the soul.
(Deepak Chopra, How to Know God, page 285)
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Culture is defined as “an historically transmitted pattern of meaning embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic form, by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life.”
(Clifford Geertz, The Anagogical Imagination, Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism, D. Tracy, page 7)
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