c/joseph-campbell
Mythologist and guide to the hero's journey. Campbell revealed the universal patterns in every culture's greatest stories - and how to live our own.
…His friends came and in good orthodox tradition said: well you've been a bad boy that's why you're getting this. That's the old story. Job said: no I haven't and he was exactly right it was because he had been good that he was getting, which is a…
…we are interested in the body that is put on. And put off and that's where the tragedy is. And you don't throw it away. Job said to god: what is man that thou shouldst regard him? Okay you throw man away. In the orient, in the deeper orient, the…
…theme here I would oppose as contraries Prometheus and job. They're of about the same date actually historically, those two statements. Job was miserably treated by his deity. God had absolutely no excuse for this abuse of that perfectly good man, except to…
…the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee wherefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes. The pious comforters are humbled. Job is rewarded with a fresh house, fresh servants and fresh daughters and sons. After this lived job 140 years and saw his…
…makes a bet with the devil that this good man can be abused and this good man will never turn from god. And that's right. Job never did. But job certainly was puzzled and his friends came to him and they said: you must have been bad. You know what…