Story as Remembrance

As you live the story you gradually come to understand that what you are really doing is gradually remembering something you already knew, a reality you always came from….

The Royal Art is increasingly an Art of Remembrance:

  • Plato: recollection;
  • Israel: “remember” as covenantal imperative;
  • liturgy: making sacred events present through remembrance;
  • Gnosis: remembering divine origin;
  • Grail: recovering what was lost;
  • alchemy: uncovering hidden gold;
  • ACIM: remembering God;
  • the Prince: remembering his name and inheritance;
  • the Western soul: remembering its scattered spiritual biography;
  • the Astral Library itself: memory palace of the Prince.
Why does truth so often feel less like learning something new than recognizing something forgotten?