The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue th — Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense
The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue th — Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense
The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue th — Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense
The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue th — Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense
The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue th — Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense
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The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.

— Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense
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