GR - Sacred "Star" Power

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 22 21:05:31 CDT 2001


"the inherent connection in the archaic society betwen the expanding sector 
of priviledge and the expanding sector of the sacred.  Privilege is 
prestige, and prestige, in its fundamental nature as in the entmology of the 
word, means deception and enchantment.
[...]
Power was originally sacred, and it remains so in the modern world."

*Life Against Death* N.O.Brown; Wesleyan U. 1959; p.252

This logical connection can take you a long way through GR.  The rocket is 
power, and sacred.  The powerful need only to let us get a glimpse now and 
then.  Power is dazzling!

David Morris

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