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...