Sentences with phrase «sacred fire of»

In Washington's first inaugural address, occurring at the event that completed, as it were, the constituting of the new nation, he said: «The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.»

If Banning's account has a shortcoming, it is in his effort to explain this two-fold commitment to the «sacred fire of liberty,» the Madisonian phrase that provides the book's title.

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They've understood time as an agent in brand building: how you start fresh, pass through the fire of irrelevance, then become authentic, and then become sacred.

«It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer - hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down,» he said.

Its ritual absolutes and rules look legalistic, rubric - mad today: but they spoke with a sure confidence of the sacramentality of life, the rootedness of the sacred not in pious feelings of «spirituality,» not in our heads or even exclusively our hearts, but in the gritty and messy realities of life, birth, death, water and stone and fire, bread and wine.»

At the sacred mountain, whither he had fled in desperate need of spiritual reinforcement, Elijah faced first a strong wind, then an earthquake, and then a fire, but in these outward shows of physical power God was not present.

According to the Diocese of East Anglia, a man walked into St Mary's Catholic Church on 27thMarch, lit a couple of small fires and attempted to burn a sacred icon taken off the church's altar.

Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.

In the presence of a certain society among them, the medicine man throws a bit of sacred tobacco on the altar fire and chants in a low voice:

Brief examples of phrases used by the Adhvaryu are as follows: When a piece of wood with which the sacred fire is to be kindled is dedicated, this formula is recited: «This, Agni, is thy igniter; through it mayst thou grow and thrive.

On 19th July AD 64 the great fire of Rome broke out and it raged for a week, destroying alike the most sacred buildings and the homes of the common people, and leaving the people of Rome bound together in a community of misery.

Religion News Service: Tibetans have «sacred duty» to support self - immolations As the 18th congress of China's Communist Party began in Beijing this week, six more Tibetans set themselves on fire as Tibetan leaders say they are powerless to stop a growing wave of self - immolations.

For neo-pagans, the four elements - earth, air, water and fire - are closely linked to their view of a sacred planet.

It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth.

In part on the strength of the proposition that the description of God's appearance on the sacred mountain in Exodus 19 presupposes volcanic phenomena (a view supported by the guiding cloud and pillar of fire?)

Narsai seized upon the image of Isaiah in the Temple with the burning coal to express the sacred terror experienced by the priest in the mediation of the divine, for Isaiah saw in the coal «the Mystery of the Body and Blood, which, like fire, consumes the iniquity of mortal man.»

Every one of us, we have this sacred fire and we have to find the right solution to improve it.

Though a satirist always risks blowback, both from those who don't get the joke and from some who do, when it comes to social criticism, I tend to follow what we might call the Joe Bob Briggs Doctrine: think of the social critic as a machine gun spraying fire across the cultural landscape, and «when a target screams, you've found the sacred cow.

They have never forgotten or forgiven the day in 1919 when General Dyer ordered his troops to open fire in the sacred city of Amritsar and Mrs. Gandhi may well have cause to rue the day she did the same.»

Going to war has been the defining moment of American politics in the last decade but Elizabeth says that many fire fighters she treated were against this action as they saw ground zero as a «sacred place» that should not be used for political gain.

Or the extremes of the sacred fire dances performed in New Guinea, where in order to commune with their ancestors men enter a trance state wearing masks decorated with blood drawn agonisingly from their own tongues.

The Constant Fire by Adam Frank (University of California) Astrophysicist (and frequent DISCOVER contributor) Adam Frank bridges the gap between research and religion by acknowledging the sacred in science.

Its musicians played flutes made of condor and pelican bones in an amphitheater lighted by sacred fires.

What I loved about yoga back then (and now)... Oh yes, the incense, those sacred far out words: Kundalini, breath of fire, third eye, supreme consciousness.

Lyn began Fire Emblem without much fighting experience, but soon found herself in possession of the Mani Katti, a sacred weapon that only she can carry.

Not only is this free - spirited fest famous for its musical roster of international eargasms, it's also where you'll find giant floating structures illuminated by lanterns and candy - coloured sunsets, sand - in - your - toes dance floors dotted with flower garlands and painted faces, and even a sacred fire burning throughout the night... Well, this year the boho beach party is coming to Bali, at no other than La Brisa!

• Ritual of the sacred Chicha a corn drink • Ritual of the Holy Fire • Sacrifice of the llama (Andean cameloid) and auguries.

Your quest is to deposit each of them in the sacred Bacon Fires scattered across the map to weaken the Anti-Spank and finally strike him down.

This is a guest post by Marilyn Berta for Sacred Fire, an initiative of the Sacred Fire Foundation which seeks to help all people re-discover and celebrate the sacred, interconnected nature of life.

This article was originally published in Sacred Fire magazine, an initiative of the Sacred Fire Foundation which seeks to help all people re-discover and celebrate the sacred, interconnected nature of life, a perspective held by indigenous peoples and spiritual traditions everywhere which is the source of all personal, cultural and environmental well - being.

Moreover, given the severe and permanent nature of the harm that accrues from the destruction of sacred sites, it will be difficult for the government to justify such an infringement in the absence of an urgent, overriding public purpose (eg the construction of a fire break to prevent the imminent spread of a forest fire, where there is no possible alternate location).

Activities included workshops on lateral violence, cultural safety, importance of identity, responsible gambling and men's behaviour change; sacred fire and food ceremonies; musical and cultural dance performances; and the development of a possum skin cloak from designs drawn by participants.