Capitolo 51
civilized men thought face to face with the modern woods--the inhabitated
only in his/her vigor and cells. The trees had drawn their closing of barking around
them, bringing a tapestry inviolata through those portals through that
then very an extraneous to them had passed in and you/he/she had fainted; and
of now from now on the equivocal oracle of the forest--his/her one responds to everybody
man's questionings--it became the Voice of his really Mystery.
After this the worshipper of forest could adore the woods anybody more. But
we don't have to forget that civilization as comparative with the duration of
the human life on the planet started but yesterday: also our really
Indo-European breaks of run as is on the edge of forest. And the
forest arrives out still and twines same around ours more depth
spiritual truth: house--the birth--the love--the prayer--the death: it tries
overflow all of them to their recovery. This way when we build our houses,
instinctively we try from of the block of trees to hide them and to
once more protects him in the forest; in of the countries
every whenever a child was born, a tree is planted as its keeper in kind;
in our customs of marriage the forest still rises up as master of ceremonies
with garlands and fruits; our prayers strike against the moulded forest
hi authoritative stone--memory of the grove, the first temple of God; and when
we die, it is the tree of which is planted close to us as the sentinel
our rest. The sight of a grave without trees also wakes up again to this day of it
dark instinct in us that it is God-desolate.
Yes, he said, man of modern temple and any it has wherever reared for his
spirit, on his walls you/he/she has been found growing the same leaf and
vine tendril: he has introduced the tree in the ritual of every later
world-adoration; and so he has introduced the evergreen one in the
ritual of the Christianity.
This is then the meaning of the Christmas Albero and his/her presence to
the Nativity. To the dawn of history we see man that adores the
I literally plant with trees as the present Creator on the earth; in our duration we see