Very evokative vision, Amantes! I was instantly transported to the mysterious desert.Amantes wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 4:08 pm I have been thinking long time that my english is too bad to really communicate, but im not sure how true that is. This topic gave me so beatiful and clear images to my mind that I wanted to share it. Hopefully my words can reah you brothers and sisters.
My ideal temple would be located in desert. Heat, sand, cold and dark nights with lots of stars. There would be naturally formed, sand covered, cave where the church had been found. Lots of bones, skeletons, ash, dry roses (and other dry flowers and plants), burning herbs, smoke, little on-going bonfires, lots of bottles of boose and other plant made potions. It would be asymmetric but still monotonic, singing only one worded silence where the restless and violent mind is naturally forced to drop that act because the bridge to source is too bright and clear. There would be some holes in the "roof" where the sun or night can enter in the cave. Bloodstained altar stones and crafted stones, like in gravyeard, with symbols and/or short poetic koan-like texts, or only one word, which you can comtemplate to the ends of time; to kill the time.
At the lowest floor stage there would be passage to little, colourfull and rich garden. There would be hole on the ground which led us to clear, pure and little bit bubling fountain. That would be home of some frogs that would be chanting "croack, croack".
This topic is interesting, because these kinds of imaginated journeys to paint from mind what one can see as beatiful and holy can reveal something very essential of ones soul. I think these kind of clear pictures of place of spirits are in a way present in every breath we take.
I see already a network of power places - even cities, deserts, forests and mountains - rising like in some astral map.It is nice how these visions give some idea about each of us writing on this forum, many of whom have never met each other.
Is this assymetry like the strange angles in Lovecraft's "Dreams in the Witch House"...? (I only ask because I have spent many youthful nights trying to imagine these asymmetries. And I once was spending time in an abandoned house where I thought I found a room where the angles werr somewhat as evokative as I had imagined).