For, as Campbell explains, the End of the World is not a cataclysmic event to whose final judgmental terror we draw ever closer. The End of the World comes every day for those whose spiritual insight allows them to see the world as it is, transparent to transcendence, a sacrament of mystery, or, as the poet William Blake wrote, “infinite.” The End of the World is, therefore, metaphoric of our spiritual beginning rather than our harsh and fiery ending.
