How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
The answers following the questions, which now came from all of them, grew longer and longer, for they became parables, examples, allegories. (3.127)
Rild gets himself some disciples, and they ask for the answers to life's tough questions. It's what disciples do. But Rild doesn't give them straight answers—oh no—instead he relies on parables and allegories, and these are what? Yep, symbolic.
Quote #5
They meditated upon the Udgitha which functions through the eye, but the demons pierced it through with evil. Therefore, one sees both what is pleasing and what is ugly. Thus the eye is touched by evil. (4.Intro)
This introduction to Chapter 4 suggests that all of our senses are a way of receiving symbolic information as it puts all five in parallel with words (which we've already determined are symbols by nature). Too bad these symbols are all infested with demons. Does one need a special type of exorcist or ENT to extract eye demons?
Quote #6
Tathagatha and Sugata would be part of a single legend, he knew, and Tathagatha would shine in the light shed by his disciple. Only the one Dhamma would survive. (4.364)
For the followers of Buddhism, Sam and Rild are now one in the same. The Buddha is no longer a person, but rather two people who have become one symbol. Sounds cramped.