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Works: rite
quinta-feira 1º de fevereiro de 2024
Symbol / Rite: Let us specify that the accident is to the Substance what ice or steam is to water, and that the form is to the Essence what the reflection is to the sun; or again, on quite a different plane, the relationship between the participle and the verb equals that of the accident and the Substance, and the relationship between the word and the thing signified equals that between the form and the Essence. And similarly in the spiritual domain: when we distinguish between the symbol and its principial archetype, the Idea (Eidos), we refer to the discontinuous and static relationship form-Essence; but when we distinguish between the rite and its effect, we refer to the relationship accident-Substance, which is continuous and dynamic. This is to say that the accident is a mode of the Substance, whereas the form is a sign of the Essence.
Every sacred symbol is an enlightening form that invites to a liberating rite: the form reveals the Essence to us, whereas the rite leads us back to the Substance; to the Substance we are, the only one that is . . . Vision of the Essence through the form, and return to the Substance by means of the rite. [GTUFS: PlayMasks, The Liberating Passage]