The Star

The symbol of the Church of Eleutheria is the star.

The star has travelled through five successive phases, or eras, aeons and paeans.

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In the first age the star was the refelction of a profound reality.

In the second age the star masked and denatured the profound reality that it previously represented.

In the third age the star masked the absence of the profound reality that once was and had now passed away.

In the fourth age the star had come to bear no relation to any reality whatsoever.

“But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, prefers representation to reality, prefers the appearance to the essence, illusion only as sacred & truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.”

The star has come to be its own pure simulacrum, for we live in an age mediated by simulation.

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