History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.