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| Uluru - Ayers Rock, Australia |
Any area where men have received the epiphany of the sacred inspires in me a deep and reverent awe: natural sacred sites ; as mountains, springs, forests, caves, artificial stones and sacred spaces built by men such as temples, shrines, synagogues, churches, mosques, pagodas, monasteries, chapels, shrines, fountains, cemeteries, betili. Together with the holy places hierophanies generate the sacred rites: rites of foundation of secular buildings, of the religious rites of consecration and then liturgies are celebrated. The sacred rites not only express the spirituality of each religion, but also will shape the three bodies, different and complementary: the personal body
- the social body
- the architectural body
Contrary to what they think Plato and the various spiritualists, the bodily nature of man is neither a curse nor a condemnation, but the first blessing which the Creator opens the way for the salvation of men. Conversely sinners would be pure spirits, as demons, apparently free, but actually dominated by evil forever. Thank God we are and have a body, by which the pride of our mind is limited and subject to the humble body.
also by holy body of the Incarnate Word, crucified and risen, we have been freed from sin and death, so thanks to the body washed and marked, say the members of our body in the service of God: " I urge you therefore, brethren, by God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual worship "(Rom 12:2). The word translated into Italian as" spiritual "betrays the truth in Latin" rationabile "and the greek" logiké "which means rational, logical, intelligible, rather than spiritual.
In fact, it is intelligible, logical and rational that worship in which the victim offered in sacrifice is alive, when it coincides with the priest offering the sacrifice, so that the victim, priest and sacrifice are one reality thanks to the body given.
Man and World, as creatures, are facing the great mystery of the Creator.
Not only that, but through the human body, even the world has turned to God and this forms the metaphysical foundation of orientation, the first principle of the sacred.
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| Obelisk of Luxor in Place de la Concorde, Paris |
The first concerns the prayerful guidance, namely the inner and outer condition in which the believer must lie when he prays. The spiritual orientation has an immediate implication of architecture, because of the nature and created human body and the world. As shown by the nature and ritual function of the obelisk.
"venerated at Heliopolis was a sacred stone called benden , considered the first manifestation of the primordial god Atum-Khepri . The rays of the rising sun would hit first by this sacred stone. benden Stone 's primitive image of the obelisk. These symbols of monolithic stone, tapering upwards and ending in a tip probably gilded, were regarded as the abode of the sun god. "
Manfred Lurker, Dictionary of Symbols and the Egyptian gods .
probably the tip of the obelisk symbolizes the sacred stone of Heliopolis benden. The obelisk rising in the sky (the goddess Nut), the rising of the sun rising (or Khepri Harakhte) symbolized by the winged scarab, collected and shone, as the Earth (the god Geb) below was still shrouded in silence and the dark cloak of night, so the sun hits the tip gave early the sacred rites of the morning.
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| Ra Temple, Abu Simbel |
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| Ra-Harakhte |
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