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 Newsletter Nr. 667   
 Amsterdam, June 26th, 2017

RITUAL ENACTMENT, MORPHOGENESIS, AND EVOLUTION - JOE CORBETT

Mircea Eliade said that the spiritual life of human beings can be summed-up by the myth of eternal return, the participation in the original act of creation by the gods through ritual re-enactment of the gods themselves, which are the archetypal patterns of our psyche. It is through the ritual act that the gods can be invoked, for the archetypal patterns of ritual are themselves the past actions of the gods, the divinity within. In the re-enactment, in the repetition of those archetypal patterns, the divine is made manifest, and humans are made participants in the cosmic creation.

The act of ritual itself is the spark of creation, which, when carried-out faithfully to the established patterns of the ritual, brings into being the presence of the divinity. Each ritual act, properly enacted in a series of ritual acts as if sequentially coded, is a renewed initiation of the creative spark, an act of god, a re-enactment of the manifestation of divine form ex nihilo.

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