Chapter 4 Eliade...

Near the end of this chapter Eliade said something that really caught my eye. She said, "In short, even without a visible apocalyptic destruction, this world, the old world, is symbolically abolished and the paradisal World of the origin is established in its place." (P. 72) I think the point that Eliade is trying to get at is; even though we don't see our world ending, our Earth is ever changing whether for a greater good, or evil. Through every day trials and tribulations our Earth is changing and millions of new ideas are coming into to play everyday. We are evolving creatures and our ideas and viewpoints are constantly going to keep evolving. This place is not static it is very fluid. And while we probably won't see anything of an apocalypse the world is ever changing into our view of what a paradisal world is. We shape it around our beliefs so in the end, we will all live in our own paradisal worlds.