Not long since I was in a group where one told a riddle story about a doctor and a patient. The answer to the riddle depended upon the listener being able to realize that the doctor could have been a woman. The words were carefully spun to take the mind away from that obvious answer.

Several of my Wiccan friends place a lot of emphasis on the stories about King Arthur and his times. Is there anything of any importance in these stories to someone who doesn’t think Arthur was real, or are they true?

The Early Christians knew what consummate allegory in their tradition was, and what was historically true. The later pack of scoundrels took out anything that decreased their power and insisted that the allegories were historical facts. Since the so-called history was spurious the spiritual reality of Christianity was obscured because faith was required of the devotees instead of knowledge that came from experience.