The “mist” in Genesis only obscured the truth, it did not destroy it. Truth is changeless and universal and infinite. Our work is to clear the mist or rise above it. Awake from the delusion.
To see without the symbol, having faith in the unseen, requires some recognition that the essence of life is not “seen” but is known by its reflected image in the “seen” world. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are …. ”