On the Assembly of Sacred Places

[a note I wrote a year ago that I like https://www.reddit.com/r/pagan/s/uUITc2ORl5]

in my opinion.

all votive enactments, from the most luxurious offering to the most modest altar, be it a prayer that takes a moment or a temple which stands for a ten millennia, function in some way to make a place in which divinities inhabit, at once provisionally and immanently. the material specifics of our rituals, our spaces, our theologies by which we make space with the divine condition the ways we commune with them, but they do not condition it exhaustively. a ritual is both the creation of a local space or zone or moment of divine habitation and also a linking up with any number of other such zones, times, assemblages. it is the dialectical work of linking such assemblages up, more than either an externalist positivism which reduces all actions to behavior or an internalist protestantistic orientationalism which holds ritual suspect, which makes sense as sacred to me.