Capitolo 54
he/she ever adored as he looked over the forest: the light of the
skies that are floating in the depth of space--light that he has wanted but it was able
not the taking.
He touched the next object on the tree--the candle under the star--and
succession:
Images, he said, the worshipper of forest as at the end of centuries to have
taken this light--having demolished him in the language of his/her myth
from earth sky: or, images the star in the space as having
becomes a star in his/her hand--the candle: the worshipper of star now had
also becomes the worshipper of fire. This way the candle conducts again us to the
you shoot worshippers of ancient Persia--that highlands of the spirit
light that looks for. We think as only to the candle of Christmas on the tree
taken in loan by the candle of the altar for the purpose of the illumination;
but his use goes up again to once when the worshipper of forest, now
also the worshipper of fire, hung his/her lights on the trees, while having anybody
other altar. Far down toward modern times the times of the old one
Prussians, for example both groves of oak, and among them a hierarchy of
priests were orderly to perpetually hold the sacred fire that burns to
the root of the sacred oak.
He touched the third object on the tree--the cross under the
candle--and it followed:
"To the Christian believer the cross means a supreme event:
Calvary and the tragedy of the Crucifixion. It was what you/they saw the Marys
and the apostles that morning in Gethsemane. But anybody in that age
thought of the cross as a Christian symbol. John and Pietro and Paul
and the rest went down to their graves without concerning him/it this way. The
Magdalene never clung to him with arm life-tired, neither it poured out to
his foot the benizon of his/her torn wounds. Not up to the third century
after Christ made the Bishops assembled in Nice they announce him a Cristiano
symbol. But it was a sacred emblem in the antiquity of dateless of
Egypt. To primitive man it was standing for that sacred light and fire of
life that he was. For him he is a cross--the first cross him