PART THREE

Festivals for Our Time

 

 

 

 

The last three thousand years of mankind have been an excursion into ideals, bodilessness, and tragedy and now the excursion is over…it is a question, practically, of relationship. We must get back into relationship, vivid and nourishing relationship to the cosmos.…The way is through daily ritual, and the reawakening. We must once more practice the ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last…We must return to the way of ‘knowing in terms of togetherness’…the togetherness of the body, the sex, the emotions, the passions, with the earth and sun and stars.

—D. H. Lawrence