Greatly Changed

The second function
 Of a mythology
 Is to
 Present
 An image
 A total image
 Of the universe
 As consciousness is aware of it
 We have to
 Encompass
 The whole of what we know
 And see that
 In terms of this mystery
 Now as you
 Immediately realize
 In the course of the ages
 In the course of time
 Man's understanding
 A man's image
 Of the universe
 Has great greatly changed
 A man's image
 Of the universe
 Has great greatly changed
 A totally new cosmos
 Has come into being
 Has come into our consciousness
 Has great greatly changed
 The view
 Of
 The world round about
 That the Pawnee Indian would have had on the plains of Nebraska
 200 years ago
 Is very, very different
 From what is now propounded
 In the University of Nebraska
 Likewise
 When we read
 In the
 Book of Genesis
 The story of the creation of the world
 That's not the world
 That our scientists are
 Telling us about
 A man's image
 Of the universe
 Has great greatly changed
 A man's image
 Of the universe
 Has great greatly changed
 A totally new cosmos
 Has come into being
 Has come into our consciousness
 Has great greatly changed
 Read an account
 Of the coming into being of the cosmos
 From the spiral nebulae
 Hundreds and hundreds of millions of years ago
 And try to bring that into accord
 With
 The Biblical story
 Or try to bring it into accord with any
 Of the inherited stories
 The
 Image of the cosmos
 Must change
 With the development of the mind
 And the knowledge
 Otherwise
 The
 Mythic statement is lost
 And man becomes disassociated
 From the very basis
 Of his own religious experience
 Doubt comes in and so forth
 You must remember
 All of the great traditions
 And little traditions
 In their own time
 Were scientifically correct
 That is to say they were correct
 In terms
 Of the scientific image of that age
 So there must be
 A Scientifically
 Validated
 Image
 Now you know what has happened
 Our scientific field has separated itself
 From the religious field
 Or vice versa
 A man's image
 Of the universe
 Has great greatly changed
 A man's image
 Of the universe
 Has great greatly changed
 A totally new cosmos
 Has come into being
 Has come into our consciousness
 Has great greatly changed
 It was actually
 The religious community that rejected the scientific community
 In the 17th Century
 And this divorce
 Is a fatal thing
 And a very unfortunate
 And a totally unnecessary thing
 There is no reason whatsoever
 For clinging
 To the literal
 The literal
 Reading
 Of a scientific statement
 That is
 4000
 Years
 Old
 It must be read
 Another way
 And there is something else being said there
 Which is lost
 If you
 Either hang on to the old science
 Or reject it
 Or reject it
 A man's image
 Of the universe
 Has great greatly changed
 A man's image
 Of the universe
 Has great greatly changed
 A totally new cosmos
 Has come into being
 Has come into our consciousness
 Has great greatly changed