Opening the circle, letting out the pigs

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Littlestone Apr 30, 2006 15:42:42
Replying to moss

>...the primeval was outside the circle, the circle is the beginning of civilisation...<

Ahh but is it? Was the primeval inside or outside the circle? What do we actually do when we enclose a space (and sometimes make it sacred?). Was a circle a sanctuary? What's the meaning of a sanctuary? Hang on, I'll just check that. <i>Sanctuary "...a place where birds wild animals, breed and are protected." "...a place of refuge..."</i> Perhaps circles, shrines and temples, in fact any place of 'sacredness', is a place where the ancients and all that is connected to them dwell.

At the heart of a least one religion there is nothing other than the original spirit - the primeval 'sense' of it all, protected forever from the turmoil of transformation. Nothing happened there, nothing need happen, it had already happened.

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nigelswift Apr 30, 2006 15:54:24
Replying to Littlestone

Inside, outside... all this speculation will give you a headache Littlestone, you know it will.

Just to make sure, don't forget there's a third possibility, that its the circle itself that matters... endless, eternal, perfection conjured up in a disordered world...