Daily Meditation: Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Religious objects - recipients of cosmic forces

07/27/2004

Since time immemorial, human beings have been naturally inclined to ascribe particular powers to certain stones, or to certain objects of wood or metal, sometimes even without specific form. By concentrating on these objects, they were able to turn them into receptacles of cosmic forces. In every religion, standing stones or statues have played and continue to play this role. By considering these objects in a certain way, believers project onto statues of gods or saints the best of their heart and soul. Thanks to this faith and this love, these statues become conductors of their prayers; and by this same means, they transmit responses from the invisible world, in the form of an insight, a feeling of calm, or some help.