![]() ![]() Perhaps I’ve gone bug eyed in extrapolating and unpacking whatever I can from the show, but “True Detective” has already dipped its toes into philosophy, religion and more, so I can’t help but think that Pizzolatto is throwing a sly nod to the architecture of the show. And “mystical telos” puts forth the notion that if evil exists in nature, its presence is part of a divine plan. The word is an offshoot of teleology, which essentially describes any philosophical belief that concludes that nature always moves toward a definitive end. ![]() But wait, who was Teleos de Lorca? According to Google, he doesn’t exist, but if you search “mystic telos” you stumble across something that can’t be a coincidence (incidentally, teleos is the Greek word for perfection). He brought it to the attention of the higher ups in the church who handled the matter internally, with the matter never pursued any further. ![]() Before he started doing the revival meeting thing, Joel used to work for Tuttle’s group where part of his duties were custodial, and one night he accidentally knocked over an ancient volume of letters by the 12th century mystic Teleos de Lorca belonging to a senior minister, only to find images of naked children inside. ![]()
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