The Raising Of The Djed
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Re-membering the Center
by MoiRa Timms © 1994
Centering
The two universal forces that most concerned ancient peoples seem to have been those of cosmos (harmony, and the organized, known order) and chaos (the forces of entropy, confusion, and the unknown). Preserving cosmos and repelling chaos have kept us busy and preoccupied since time immemorial. When the magnetic Center that controls the periphery fails to hold, things fall apart and the chaos that was in the beginning begins to return. Chaos, of course, has always been the most feared of all the primal powers. Beyond the known order–the light of the campfire, the walls of the city, the edge of the forest or horizon–loomed the unknown, the domain of darkness, danger, and demons.
