"Within the soul, within the body social, there must be - if we are to experience long survival - a continuous "recurrence of birth" (palingenesia) to nullify the unremitting recurrences of death. For it is by means of our own victories, if we are not regenerated, that the work of Nemesis is wrought: doom breaks from the shell of our every virtue. Peace then is a snare; war is a snare; change is a snare; permanence is a snare. When our day is come for the victory of death, death closes in; there is nothing we can do, except to be crucified - and resurrected; dismembered totally, and then reborn."
Joseph Campbell
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Interesting on several levels, not the least of which is political.
Primarily suggestive, though, on the topic which occupies my mind a great deal these days - enduring to the end, or maintaining and extending that which is gained by being born again.
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