Blog from Readings:
When
reading, The Sacred and the
Profane: the Nature of Religion,
by Mircea Eliade I remembered the many discussions we've had on
symbolism. Here's a quote that stood out to me in particular:
“By
manifesting the sacred, any Object becomes something else, yet it
continues to remain itself, for it continues to participate in its
surrounding cosmic milieu. A sacred stone remains a stone; apparently
(or, more precisely, from the profane point of view), nothing
distinguishes it from all other stones. But for those to whom a stone
reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into a
supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious
experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic
sacrality. The cosmos in its entirety can become a hierophany...”
So
from one point of view, we can see the Eucharist, or Holy Water as
mere elements, (bread, wine, water ect) but from another point of
view, they are something much more. They are something divine, only
disguised as things of this world in a mystical way. This was a good
article to help me understand more of the Sacred and its relationship
to the Profane.
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