Modern literature can serve as a preparatory exercise to understand how fundamental symbols operate, but at the same time it shows how dangerous and pernicious are the effects of "originality," "individuality" and "inventiveness," by altering and diverting the essential meanings of symbols. The present work, The Everlasting Sacred Kernel, used Western literature to introduce the essence of traditional thinking and to illustrate how the laws of sacred symbolism should be considered. The power of discrimination plays a major role in identifying the traditional vestiges carried by profane literature, and unveiling, in some cases, how these were abused and altered.