The earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth.
Whether we see them as breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator,or as symbols of the interconnected systems that sustain life, wee know that nothing can live without them.To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefullness for human ends, that they become the standards that judge our acts, economics, laws, and purposes. No one has the right to appropriate or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy.
All people, all living things are part of the life of the Earth, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure balance: only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity.
To honor the sacred it's to create conditions in which sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can survive. To honor the sacred it's to make love possible. " Intro to the novel The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk. A halfway decent novel.Too bad no one has tried to make a miniseries out of this one. The spirit is neopagan and would probably step on too many toes.No zombies, no big battles, the power of those who refuse to obey and are willing to pay the price.
And I might add, hope. Without hope and love? Life has no meaning.
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