the symbolic slips into artifice, illusion or camouflage.
These have the power to alter reality, but they cannot generate the reality they are drawn from: they are secondary manifestations.
Not being worn of reality they can never be it. They cannot be primary or foundational, but only ride upon and take advantage of the real.
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