The Most Obvious Form of Modern-Day Idolatry

Modern consciousness is non-participatory and idolatrous because it takes images literally.

The Silver Trumpet is Owen Barfield’s mythical depiction of what he would later unfold in his other works and, in some way, a prelude to what seems to be the overall message of the Inklings — the world is God’s music clad in matter.

In Saving the Appearances, Barfield points out that we live in a world of “unsaved” images — images that have been taken l…