Editorial

Abstract

Placed on the planet of the earth and yet constantly striving to go
beyond the course of the planet. Man finds himself a strange composite of
time and transcendence. He cultivates the earth and transforms its face.
Settled down on the banks of the rivers for easy cultivation, he gradually
gave rise to communities which gave him culture in return. In course of
time Thames and Tiber, Nile, Rhein, Indus and Tigris became centres of
world civilizations. But we also see in history river Jordan wheke_people
gathered to get purified from their sins, Ganges where millions still bathe,
pray and make sacrificial offerings. Water was not a means of earthly
cultivation alone. It was used also to cultivate one's mind, to beautify
one's inner self. Cult which gave mankind culture further led him to
religious cult. Man's primordial relation to earth was only the beginning
of his capacity to relate with the outer world. Far beyond the measure of
his outer world was the invisible world of eternal realities. This unseen
world of reality took him to myths, mysteries and gods and to those events
which took place in the beginning. "Let us do what gods did in the
beginning", he said. He did it. He enacted the story of the beginning.
He remembered what happened in the beginning. His remembrance
(Anamnesis) was by doing, by acting it out. Cult became mystery cult and
religious worship. Man became a cultic animal.