The Sacred and the Profane: Part 1

Bringing back the gods and spaces of light

This essay takes inspiration from the book “The Sacred and the Profane”. Learn how to bring back the gods and close the gap between creation and creator.

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Where is it that we have lost meaning? Has it hidden itself beneath the rose bush, our hands too gentle to push past the thorns?

And where have the spirits gone? I thought I saw one once, deep in a dream, came forward with a light gleam. All things were shining, the leaves glistenend and the bark was waving, not with hands but in a natural way. I guess they are always waving but I don’t see.

What did our ancestors mean by starting a new year? I do not believe we fully understand what they were doing. You see, they didn’t celebrate the new year like from 2000 to 2001, no they celebrated the new year like from 1 to 0 to 1. They understood the new year as a new beginning of time. The Big Bang happened every year in their world. It was killed and born again.

Why do we feel so distant from God? Well, its been 2025 years since his Son last roamed the Earth, and the more we are told, the Earth is billions of years old. So the closest we can get to God is a couple of billion years away. I think that’s why we feel so close to materials, because my car was just made 10 years ago, and that’s a lot closer than my God, who made me a billion years ago.

And that iPhone I just bought, that bad boy was produced and created a few months ago. And just when I feel I am getting tired of my old god a new one comes out and I turn the old one in. You see, there isn’t any time for timelessness. Just the thought of moving forward and getting rid of any baggage from the past that probably won’t even last.

Only the sacred breaks one free of time, the church was a way to the divine, perhaps there are still a few that are kept in the shadows. Sacred time does not have a past present or future, it is outside of time. You don’t really explain sacred time, it is something you experience, you cultivate it and you designate it so.

You make a room or allot a plot to be used as a place for worship, for what, to worship creation as it is. The place becomes sacred when you dissolve human needs, wants, and plans and enter the domain with no reason but to be. It takes on the characteristic of sacred time, it becomes the center of the world, of the universe indeed, this is the place marked for Infiniti.

In the sacred domain, all things shine.

Sacred Space

The language spoken is universal, if not at all. The doors open up to heaven, and angels present themselves. This is the place where the unconscious shines. Conscious thoughts are put to the side. Responsibilities fall beneath the rising tides of energy - abundance - warmth. The caged spirit is set free and takes flight like a bird, soaring and observing - listening to the echoes of time. Micro and macro persist, duality blends until all becomes one.

Sometimes there is chanting, and at other times a story is told, transporting all listeners to foreign lands.

The sacred sites can still be built. When dreams persist, the leaders take action and build, alotting space and time for the divine to reside. You build and they will come, the people will awaken so long as you persist.

Think deeply until you do not think at all, then you will encounter infinite bliss. This is the sacred place, where you are to build, you must persist. The gods are calling you to bring them back, they miss the cherised shrines and looking up eyes.

Don’t worry about the world if you want it to change. Change your space and create a base where the sacred can be manifested on your Earth. Create the center of the world, for it is a sphere; any place will work if you are intentional with the energy you conduct into the plot and the spot where the sacred will thrive.

Forget about words, let the music speak, and the pastors ruminate on infinite space. The cycle will progress, call forth the infinite, and it will make its home.

Share myths and stories that draw upon sacred history and recall the events that occurred at the beginning of time.

Sacred Myth

Myth = paradigmatic model

“The myth is always the recital of a creation; it tells how something was accomplished, began to be… it speaks only of realities, of what really happened, of what was fully manifested… for it is the sacred that is pre-eminately the real” - Mircea Eliade¹

You want to act as a fully responsible human being then “imitate the paradigmatic gestures of the gods, repeat their actions, whether in the case of a simple physiological function such as eating or of a social, economic, cultural, military or other activity” Fill your life with fixed models and creation and acting, building a life of powerful adbundance and an aptitude pointed towards the heavens.

Identify yourself with the mythical figures, you are them reincarnate.

“One becomes truly a man only by conforming to the teaching of the myths, that is, by imitating the gods.”

Sacred Time

We are born into the profane world, we work and stretch out to reach the realms of the sacred world. As if behind a veil, it is the human who reaches out and unveils the real world. Like Neo from the Matrix, you are offered the red pill or the blue pill. You can choose to stay in the world of illusions (profane) or you can venture into the real world (sacred), where there are mythical figures and mystifying experiences.

“Religious man experiences two kinds of time — profane and sacred. The one is an evanescent duration, the other a “succession of eterinities,” periodically recoverable during the festivals that made up the sacred calendar. The liturgical time of the calendar flows in a closed circle; it is the cosmic time of the year, sanctified by the works of the gods. And since the most stupendous divine work was the creation of the world, commemoration of the cosmogony plays an important part in many religions. The New year coincides with the first day of Creation. The year is the temporal dimension of the cosmos. “The world has passed” expresses that a year has run its course.”

The story in the Garden of Eden and of Man's Fall is a nostalgia for a time when man was unconscious, when he did not have to work and was one with God. The conscious mind creates the illusion that we are separate and creates a profane landscape. Sacred spaces then bring the human back to a time when man did not labor and existed in a state of infinite chaos, rather than finite time and order.

“It is by virtue of this eternal return to the sources of the sacred and the real that human existence appears to be saved from nothingness and death.”

The profane (material) life finds no infinite pleasure or meaning, but daily finds itself stuck in pleasure-driven, broken patterns of “happiness” that vanishes at the first sign of the end. You see, for the profane man, life is one long cycle that ultimately leads to death. There is no meaning and there is no purpose. The gods have left him, and he stands alone on a small rock in the middle of a circling universe.

The journey towards a unified world starts from within.

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1. The Sacred and the Profane - The Nature of Religion by Mircea Eliade