Sacred Places

~ a few Sacred Places close to home ~

Sacred Places

SACRED or holy places are found in different cultures, past and present, all over the world. Such
places are frequently marked or embellished by architectural structures and art.

The philosopher Plotinus (205-270 CE) explained it this way [Enneads, IV, 3. 11]:

Those ancient sages who saught to secure the presence of divine beings by the erection of shrines and
statues, showed insight into the nature of the All; they perceived that, though the Soul is everywhere
traceable, its presence will be secured all the more readily when an appropriate receptacle is
elaborated, a place especially capable of receiving some portion or phase of it, something reproducing
it, or representing it and serving like a mirror to catch an image of it.

Stonehenge...