Ceremony & Ritual

There may be, in fact I know there are, people who think that ceremony and ritual belong to the old age and that there will be no such thing in the new. Now this is very wrong, because we know, this is not my opinion, this is direct guidance, that ceremony and ritual will play a very large part in the New Age, but it will be New Age ceremony and ritual.

Ritual must be sincere and it must be meaningful; if it has become crystallised, so that it is simply going through certain gestures, certain words, certain actions, which are done mechanically, not from the heart, with no meaning, then it is useless. That is why an absolutely fixed type of ritual will not be used in the New Age.

Ritual will be inspired ritual in the moment and in this case it will retain its meaning and have an effect. Now ritual may seem nonsense to people, but it isn’t. Words used, gestures used, aren’t simply something on this physical level, they are creating patterns on a higher level, and they are blending in with patterns which are already existing on a higher level and therefore they play a very important part in the process of manifestation.

Ceremony by R. Ogilvie Crombie.

(Edited extract from ‘Festival, Findhorn, November 5th 1970’; Foundation archives.) 

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