By Robert E. A. Daley

'In 1976 (the US Bi-Centennial year), whilst I first begun heavily America’s number of kingdom and nationwide symbols, it felt like i used to be peeking into the nation’s dream-journal—because symbols are the language of the soul and consult us on that point. Symbols are the language that the soul makes use of to speak with our cognizance. It occurs each evening in our dream-time. Politically, we use symbols to memorialize beliefs and occasions for posterity and in hassle-free institution we have been taught what our political symbols suggest at the superficial point. yet what do those symbols say to us at the deeper, metaphysical point? Our Federal & country symbols have been verified via deep soul-searching by means of our elected legislators, so that they have the standard of dream-symbols. jointly, they're the Nation’s dream-journal. Is there a cohesive message inside them? if this is the case, it was once fostered over a span of many centuries from a degree of truth past our own—by the powers that encouraged every person from Columbus to the present voting-block of usa citizens. This ebook is a examining in their collective conversation.

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