Such offenses break the relationship with the sacred order or impede the flow of divine life.
Through that experience I discovered the Sacred Order of the External Mind.
Often they have been understood as the effects of offenses against the sacred order committed by individuals or communities, deliberately or unintentionally.
Such a sacred order is less likely to be corrupt, because it "constantly resists being made convenient for the cadres who come to administer the creed".
In any one sacrificial rite a number of intentions may be expressed, and the ultimate goal of all sacrifice is to establish a beneficial relationship with the sacred order, to make the sacred power present and efficacious.
Their purpose has been to consecrate the ground by establishing the beneficent presence of the sacred order and by repelling or rendering harmless the demonical powers of the place.
Yet the moment our Supreme Court justices put them on, a segment of the concerned public imagines that they have become priests consecrated to the sacred order of the Constitution.
Sacrifice, a religious rite in which an object is offered to a divinity in order to establish, maintain, or restore a right relationship of a human being to the sacred order.
