3.3 Sacred And Secular
Last modified 07/01/2008
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We have produced a new way to define the 'sacred', as the idea is used to
speak of 'sacred history'. The only problem is that the 'secular' is included in
the definition. So it could be vice versa. The Sacred History of an Age of
Revelation in now seen to be a primitive anticipation of the eonic effect and
its way of selecting regions and intervals in an eonic mainline. Thus the
interval of the Axial Israel seemed like a special or 'sacred' period because it
expressed a larger dynamic that seemed transcendental but which now seems
evolutionary, in our sense. The problem is that one and the same analysis can be
applied to our other transitions, and the Greek case, as the grandfather of the
type of the 'secular' society to come, is thus just as 'sacred' as it is
'secular'.
We have produced a new and more general analysis that both explains and transcends the previous terms of reference. All well and good. The term 'sacred' (or for that matter, 'secular') has produced enough confusion.
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