cryptadia


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cryptadia

(krɪpˈteɪdɪə)
pl n
a collection of things to be kept hidden
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One finds it at its most speculatively refined and eloquent in Emerson and in the transcendentalism to which he gave voice; at its most risible and grotesque in Scientology and similar "schools." As Bloom notes, nothing more perfectly fits the classic pattern of gnostic religion--fabulous mythologies, jealously guarded cryptadia, a collapse of the distinction between the divine and the human--than Mormonism.
Religion in America: ancient & modern
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