Also, traditional man's dissatisfaction with the post-mythical age expresses itself as a feeling of being "torn and separate".Eliade, Myths, Rites, Symbols, p. 439 In many mythologies, the lost mythical age was a Paradise, "a paradoxical state in which the contraries exist side by side without conflict, and the multiplications form aspects of a mysterious Unity". The coincidentia oppositorum expresses a wish to recover the lost unity of the mythical Paradise, for it presents a reconciliation of opposites and the unification of diversity: On the level of pre-systematic thought, the mystery of totality embodies man's endeavor to reach a perspective in which the contraries are abolished, the Spirit of Evil reveals itself as a stimulant of Good, and Demons appear as the night aspect of the Gods.
Also traditional man's dissatisfaction with the post-mythical age expresses itself as a feeling of being "torn and separate"Eliade Myths Rites Symbols p 439 In many mythologies the lost mythical age was a Paradise "a paradoxical state in which the contraries exist side by side without conflict and the multiplications form aspects of a mysterious Unity" The coincidentia oppositorum expresses a wish to recover the lost unity of the mythical Paradise for it presents a reconciliation of opposites and the unification of diversity On the level of pre-systematic thought the mystery of totality embodies man's endeavor to reach a perspective in which the contraries are abolished the Spirit of Evil reveals itself as a stimulant of Good and Demons appear as the night aspect of the Gods