The rites and rituals pose problems in many religions that are inspired by an ancient tradition: in particular to problems of "meaning" as in this case it is just to define and grasp the meaning of functions that are based on values \u200b\u200bof another time. This problematic result in the first instance by the fact that we live our time that is not only chronologically but also conceptually very different from that in which these rituals were designed, lived and practiced in everyday life.
There is certainly a problematic first of a practical nature: for us today is hard to imagine a ritual practice materially relatively simple as the "sacrifice" in its original form not only in practical terms, but also sacred because we can with difficulty conceive the sense depth of this rite. If the sacrifice is hard, you can not think of much more complex rituals such as the Equus October.
When I talk about the problem of sense to say that this issue is not the mechanical repetition of certain gestures or the repetition of formulas that Tradition is handed down: many are the rituals that are remembered in this way. But what is missing, and that makes these pageants almost parodies of weak and empty of meaning, is precisely the "content" and symbolic attachment to a well-defined system of values \u200b\u200band a worldview. It 's like having an alphabet of an ancient language that you do not have the syntax: we put all the letters without knowing the meaning of what we wrote.
Our age is very far from that system of values \u200b\u200band vision of the world: indeed it may have never been in so far as this era. In between is the Christianity but sopratuttto technological culture of contemporary society.
ancient rites are tied to a precise and complex symbolic code, but many of these symbols were reversed or forgotten. It was strongly related to the role of symbols and the position that man has the natural order. Today all this is gone also because people live completely disconnected from the cycles of nature and logic. The inconceivability of sacrifice comes from the fact that, among other things, it was intended to make the natural act of eating animals is a form of violence that is "away the living." The sacrifice becomes justified as a remedy for what to serve to disappear there something else (MACT : increase). Sacrifice is the act by which violence is inevitable for survival led to consciousness. Without this consciousness, the food is a mechanical act. But today is really only eat a mechanical act is completely separate from the reality of Nature. And for what it's worth the sacrifice-eating can be extended to all aspects of human existence: all the documents are in the technological age, and can not be anything but, mechanical. Do not forget that we are in the period Khali Yuga.
For 'homo technologicus ancient rites are "incomprehensible" and appear grotesque and laughable. The ancient symbols are now useless, incomprehensible, unnecessary in the technological society. The same monotheistic religions, with large equipment, they appear as empty boxes. What can we
do?
What you can do is build a link "religious" by nature, its manifestations, its beats, its rhythms, finding himself the "divine". It is not fighting the technology and back-stage "natural" perpetual nostalgia, we are men and women of our time. This is a rebuild conscious awareness with the support of a great ancient heritage is an asset of immense wisdom . It 'clear that the Ancient Roman religion is dead forever, but it is said that the dead deserved to die.
On this foundation it is possible to "build" are perhaps the miserable huts above magnificent ruins. But it's better than rotting in the ruins and passively a ruined world.
I do so that every act of our daily lives once again be a rite may be a small fee to remain on the "Street" to "wake up" and stay awake. The banquet, family, friendship, civic duties, responsibility towards others, respect for nature that sustains us, everything can go back to being sacred. It's back to seeing the "content" of the world in all its facets and that's where you hide the "divine".
There is certainly a problematic first of a practical nature: for us today is hard to imagine a ritual practice materially relatively simple as the "sacrifice" in its original form not only in practical terms, but also sacred because we can with difficulty conceive the sense depth of this rite. If the sacrifice is hard, you can not think of much more complex rituals such as the Equus October.
When I talk about the problem of sense to say that this issue is not the mechanical repetition of certain gestures or the repetition of formulas that Tradition is handed down: many are the rituals that are remembered in this way. But what is missing, and that makes these pageants almost parodies of weak and empty of meaning, is precisely the "content" and symbolic attachment to a well-defined system of values \u200b\u200band a worldview. It 's like having an alphabet of an ancient language that you do not have the syntax: we put all the letters without knowing the meaning of what we wrote.
Our age is very far from that system of values \u200b\u200band vision of the world: indeed it may have never been in so far as this era. In between is the Christianity but sopratuttto technological culture of contemporary society.
ancient rites are tied to a precise and complex symbolic code, but many of these symbols were reversed or forgotten. It was strongly related to the role of symbols and the position that man has the natural order. Today all this is gone also because people live completely disconnected from the cycles of nature and logic. The inconceivability of sacrifice comes from the fact that, among other things, it was intended to make the natural act of eating animals is a form of violence that is "away the living." The sacrifice becomes justified as a remedy for what to serve to disappear there something else (MACT : increase). Sacrifice is the act by which violence is inevitable for survival led to consciousness. Without this consciousness, the food is a mechanical act. But today is really only eat a mechanical act is completely separate from the reality of Nature. And for what it's worth the sacrifice-eating can be extended to all aspects of human existence: all the documents are in the technological age, and can not be anything but, mechanical. Do not forget that we are in the period Khali Yuga.
For 'homo technologicus ancient rites are "incomprehensible" and appear grotesque and laughable. The ancient symbols are now useless, incomprehensible, unnecessary in the technological society. The same monotheistic religions, with large equipment, they appear as empty boxes. What can we
do?
What you can do is build a link "religious" by nature, its manifestations, its beats, its rhythms, finding himself the "divine". It is not fighting the technology and back-stage "natural" perpetual nostalgia, we are men and women of our time. This is a rebuild conscious awareness with the support of a great ancient heritage is an asset of immense wisdom . It 'clear that the Ancient Roman religion is dead forever, but it is said that the dead deserved to die.
On this foundation it is possible to "build" are perhaps the miserable huts above magnificent ruins. But it's better than rotting in the ruins and passively a ruined world.
I do so that every act of our daily lives once again be a rite may be a small fee to remain on the "Street" to "wake up" and stay awake. The banquet, family, friendship, civic duties, responsibility towards others, respect for nature that sustains us, everything can go back to being sacred. It's back to seeing the "content" of the world in all its facets and that's where you hide the "divine".
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