What the text says on the surface is secondary to what the text actually means, and usually it was that underlying "hidden" message that was of primary importance.
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. . . the idea of a worship that is not of the symbol but of its reference, which is of a mystery of much greater age and of more immediate inward reality - Joseph Campbell
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