[MD] the apple of my eye

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Ron]
Arlo, I've had similar sentiments regarding 
original Christian thought, I too suspect it 
started out with an MOQ aim, to unite subject and object (dualism) with the
concept of a Christ. to be "born again" is to see 
reality as a child to be flexible and accepting without preconception.

[Arlo]
I think an esoteric reading of any mythology will 
lead to metaphorically vieled understandings that 
are quite similar (universal?). This was the 
beauty of Joseph Campbell's work. But in the 
Toynbee passage, I think he's simply stating the "yin-yang" in poetic words.

A continuous cycle of rebirth is DQ, the "old 
thing again" is SQ. "Palingenesia" is the DQ/SQ cycle.

When Toynbee says, "Only birth can conquer 
death­the birth, not of the old thing again, but 
of something new", he is talking about DQ. You 
may as well say, "Only DQ can conquer SQ­the 
Dynamic invention, not of the old SQ again, but of something new. "

Same thing, poetic versus philosophic words.