Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Religion & Culture / Religious Studies
Faculty/School
Faculty of Arts
First Advisor
Lawrence Toombs
Advisor Role
Thesis Supervisor
Abstract
An examination of the creative role of the individual confronting the decline and possible destruction of civilization, this thesis explores the potential of one human being to achieve, through a process of the reconciliation of opposites, unity within himself and throughout the world. William Butler Years’s theories of the Unity of Opposites, the Unity of Being, and the Unity of Culture are applied to the responsibility of the individual to realize his identity as a mystic actor: a person who takes action within the sacred, thereby creating himself and the universe in which he lives.
Recommended Citation
Harper, Susan Dunlop, "The role of the mystic actor at the decline of civilization" (1983). Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive). 76.
https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/76
Convocation Year
1983
Convocation Season
Fall