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If, as Voegelin states, the society must be microcosmos as well as macroanthropos, is it possible to incorporate into the civil theology the sort of openness to a higher order that characterized cosmological societies without attempting an impossible restoration of cosmological compactness? And most alarming for Homo sapiens, according to Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan in the book Microcosmos, is that the fossil record reveals that overpopulation and overconsumption are the two surest signs that a species is on the verge of extinction. In other words, any discursive conception of the world is true insofar as it is in accord with the internal intuitive apprehension of the soul and with the external divine revelation, and insofar as it is in harmony with the "true order of reality," (105) or al-fitrah, (106) which obviously includes the natural orders of both the external macrocosmos and the internal microcosmos of the human psyche. |
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