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Updated: June 27, 2025
In both cases the desire is to have some visible form of the deity whose relations with men may be felt to be direct. +204+. No purificatory and consecrative usage has been more widespread than fasting.
A higher form pictures something which you never saw, but only conceived as a possible existence. Then there's the imagination which not only sees but hears actually hears what a man would say on a given occasion, and entering into his blood, tells you exactly why he does it. The highest form is both creative and consecrative, if I may use the word, merging in diviner thought.
In the numerous cases in which some person or some object was to be consecrated to the deity a sacrifice was necessary in order to secure his good will; the ordination of temple-ministers, or the initiation of the young into the tribe, demanded some consecrative sacrifice. +1034+. Sacrifices might be individual or communal, occasional or periodical.
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