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The
intersection of two realities: the natural and the supernatural,
visible/invisible, flesh/ Divine at ONE point: The Present Moment.
The “Sacred Almond”
The Human and the Divine intersect in
Liturgical Time:
The Great Spiral of
the indeterminate
expansion of Love, Work, Knowledge.
Amenssis
Eplclesis
Prolesus
The Past Future: Present
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The
“Holy Presence’,
the experience described over the
centuries, is the mystery of faith.
This presence that is
“sensed, discovered, and
experienced”,
again and again in
Nature, events, things, people,
and places.
Many have referred to this
encounter with the divine:
The supernatural phenomenon that calls
humankind into a union with the Creator.
The desire to re- create the “cosmic image” in a specific time and
place is an ancient yearning in the mind of humankind. Religions do not
“create” holy places but through rites and rituals they teach that sacred space
can be
“consecrated” to give a holy place for the
Gods to manifest themselves in
a specific time and place.
öDIVINE PRESENCE ö
Religion teaches that the
intervention of God into the affairs of humankind has been, continues to be,
a universal phenomenon experienced within ancient cultures until present
times.
Ancient cultures responded to
their unique personal encounters with the interventions of the “Gods” filled
with awe and fear. These
communities associated divinity with the “re- creating” cycles of nature: The
return of the seasons, weather events, births and deaths, and the movements
of the sun, moon and stars.
Focused on these interventions of the earth and sky gods humankind integrated
these mysterious happenings of the divine into their daily lives as sacred
and holy events believing that communication with the divine powers which
dominate and control human existence would bring the anticipated blessings
for the community’s well being.
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Time Systems:
The explanations of humankind’s relationship to the Cosmos, Eternity, and the
God(s) are focused on the belief in
(a) Many Gods or
(b) One God.
Cultic Belief: A
Circle
One God: A Spiral
The One Transcendent God where all things
flow from and into
“1” Past-Present: Future
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