Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other explanation comes from the Greek Orthodex ritual where three candles must be lighted with one paper. By people of opposite faith, it has been considered sacrelegiously ill-omened to kindle three lights with...
Those of the 4,000 who went expecting a conventional musicianly concept of the Catholic ritual heard not that but more. They heard the soul of a great creator stomping through divine harmonies, shunting manufactured theories, demanding passage through forms and conventions to an Infinite. They heard Conductor Artur Bodanzky, inspired, fathom it all to the very depths with a fiery baton, get magnificent results from the Friends of Music Chorus...
...second lecture, on "The Molpe," Professor Murray touched on the Greek ritual of song and dance, which went under the name of "molpe," and which he defined as worship of this spirit of beauty. The ecstasy to which contemplation of this spirit raised the worshippers was such that mere words were too weak to express it, and movement was the natural means sought as a vent for the emotions...
...that part of man which is separate from his body. Then I switch to religion, saying that I believe Christ, Buddha, Confucius and Mohammed to have had greater influence on mankind than any material scientist. I qualify my regard for Mohammed, who believed in war. I discount Christian ritual, holding for the Sermon on the Mount, the Golden Rule. I discount church services and spoken prayers. I declare there are sermons in thunderstorms, wildflowers, oakleaves, snowflakes, squirrels. I advise religionists to adopt the methods of the scientists: obtain irrefutable, concrete data proving Immortality. Then men will have to believe...
...course of life from that of a prince to that of a begging friar. He did not lead armies, as did Mohammed. He did not confute wise men, nor die an eternal death upon the Cross, as did Christ. Instead he spent nearly his whole life tending the ritual of the Goddess Kali at her temple on the Ganges. Strangest thing of all for a Messiah, he deliberately avoided founding a cult. Instead he urged all who came to him to follow that which they preferred or to which they were born. "God," said he, "is the one flame; eyes...