There is no god in the western pantheon more controversial than Dionysus! He was controversial years ago and is still so today! For this is the god who expresses the unspeakable, forbidden realms of the human psyche! No attempt is made to sell it to the casual reader! And yet people ignore it at their peril. To the ancients, Dionysus was the one god they most definitely wanted to be on the right side of! In any event, weren't they all overturned by the coming of Jesus and the establishment of the Church? So you may think!
What I have learnt and experienced of the god is that for me, there is no going back! To live a life without awareness of this particular god, is to live in darkness! Yet, Dionysus is the god of darkness!
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The original devil! And without him, there would be no Jesus! What a tiny universe the religionist lives in! Enslaver and liberator! And you ignore him at your peril! He is the bestower of riches … luxuries … mirth … inexhaustible blessings! He heals the soul! He liberates the soul! There is no way of going back when this god is acknowledged!
It takes people into territory where most fear to go! Dionysus is both a god and a bogeyman! Since I became aware of him I have not been the same. My inner life has expanded in a manner I could never have imagined!
And I was formerly an agnostic — almost an atheist! We got over all that stuff when Christianity came along to save us — right?
He who sends some to heaven and others to hell? He who had his only begotten son come down and die for us? And you may lead a saner, duller life than me! Of all the gods, Dionysus is the most lethal! And yet liberating! I had never come across anything like this before. Walter Friedrich Otto. Publisher: Spring Pubns , This specific ISBN edition is currently not available.
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