Capitolo 53
Years! And now as one he/she sits him to of the point of a road where a
traveller has to arrive, she waited there for him.
He turned him to the tree and he/she shortly explained that as soon as the forest
worshipper started the adoration of the tree, he started to bring him his
offers and to hang these on the branches; for religion it consists in
offering anything: to adore is to give. In after centuries when men had
learned to build shrines and times, he still held on his/her primitive
custom to bring his/her gifts and sacrifices to the altar; but during
that incommensurable duration before he had learned to carve wood or to put
a stone on another, he was bringing his/her offers to the grove--the
only cathedral that he had. And this to him was not decoration; it was
prayer. This way that in our age of the world when we happily decorate the
Christmas Albero is a survival of serious rites in the adoration of
primitive man and it is ancient as the adoration of same forest.
And he now started.
With the cursor in his/her hand he touched the star to the apex of the
fir. This, he said, you/he/she was commonly understood for representing the Stella of
Bethlehem on which drove the wise men of the east to the manger the
Night of the Nativity--the Stella of the New Nato. But modern
discoveries show that the files of ancient Chaldea return four or
five thousand years before the Christian era; and as far back as them
you/he/she has been traced, we find the wise men of the to adore East this
same star and being driven from him in their spiritual vagabondages as them
looked for the incarnation of the Divine one. They adored him to Them as the
star of the peace and the goodness and purity. A lot of one pious Wolfram in those
weak centuries without doubt sang its hymn in the evening to the same star, for
love of some Chaldean Elizabeth--her and he without breath around the
desert how much centuries now as dust. Besides on these records the
star and the tree are brought together as here side side. And the
history of the leads of star face back to one of the first things that equip