Classical Ideals

Classical Ideals

Bambi and the God of the Animals

Felix Salten’s Extraordinary Fable

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Megha Lillywhite
Oct 27, 2025
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The Law that governs animals is simpler than that which governs Man and it is for this reason that truth to animals is often clearer. In fact, Man often turns to nature for this very reason. The society of man in its complexities and games, often obscures the truth behind veils of sin, so they turn to the purity of nature again and again to recalibrate against reality.

Truth is fractal, which means it exists perfectly both at the smallest level and the grandest in the same crystalline clarity. To contemplate a spider web or a mountain is not very much different in the amount that one may learn from each about the world.

Although most people know Bambi from the Disney film, the original story written by German author Felix Salten in 1928 has little to do with the cartoon that took its name and obscured its truths. I want you to forget now, everything you watched in that cartoon, and take a journey with me to the little forest glade where a little fawn was born and how he grew up in the Law of the forest to discover the truth about danger, innocence, love, friendship and...God.

The Fable Enfolds Us

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