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The use of an Altar is a response to the
innermost drives of the human psyche. Each of us has the desire to
reach within or to search without for some property or ideal that is better
than what we see ourselves as. In using an Altar you are not relying
on a crutch, but are instead formalizing the ideal that you have in your
inner self. An Altar is a reflection of the individuals personality
that has formed it. There is, in any Altar, the seed of the human
artist behind that Altar. |
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An Altar can reflect the season that it is
used in or the gender of the person that has created that sacred space
for what ever length of time it shall be there, Some groups have
certain ways that they always set an Altar or certain ways that they always
approach their Altar. I think that is fine but one can get too bogged
down in tradition and too tied too one way of doing things. |
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The Altar is the beginning of our rites and
it is the place where we can go without any sense of restraint or worry
about doing things in a manner that is not consistent with what others
are doing. “YOUR ALTAR! YOUR WAY!” this is your sacred
space and it is for you to decide whether the workings there are to be
done in any certain manner. Each of you must choose what your Altar
means to you and how to present that in a physical manner. |
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The Altar is something so individual and
so unique that the difference in each one can be as minute as one thing
being put in a certain direction by one person and the same article being
set in another direction by 1,500 other people. |
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