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The Holy Week/Bright Week cycle was the constitution of the Christian Roman Empire. When laws were put to writing in the ancient city (de Coulanges), they were conserved as sacred religious texts who were sung, ritually enacted. Politics derive from religion, the heavenly Jerusalem will be liturgised into existence. Failing to liturgise is to lose the city.

One remaining chapter from this amazing book.

This three-part structure is the universal and permanent anatomy of human societies at every scale, from the family, to the company, to the school, to the nation. At every level of social coherence, you will need the rules people (Guardians), the innovation people (Traders), and the inspiration people (the artists, clergy, or third force).

Mary had her metanoia event through motherhood. This is very important. The joy of belonging to the other (the child in this case), the trinitarian mode of being, is the opposite of what is proposed by the liberal, modern, industrialised machine. The latter wants to replace the womb with an artifical matrix. This is the enmity between the serpent and the mother of all living. I want to write more on this...

The Pattern is nothing, in a sense, but a unique way that being must allow itself to be crucified by all of the forces present in the situation that the Pattern is meant to heal - and yet, only being that conforms with these Patterns is stable, and only it exists.