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Sanctity
The dictionary has a definition of what the word 'sanctity' means, but here we will look at what 'sanctity' actually is, if there is a God.
As we look around us, we have laws, rules, legislation, limitations and authorities.
In the natural way of things we have very strict, unchanging laws, too. If one throws a grass bowl over the side of a 1,000 foot cliff, one can expect it to fall and meet certain destruction. The involvement of a parachute would bring into play a different law of nature.
There is a natural law involved in the earth revolving around the sun.
A flower seed, laying for months and sometimes years, on the Birdsville Track will blossom into life at the first rain.
I am saying that there is a basic sanctity
when creation operates
in accordance with the laws of the Creator.
That is, sanctity is an integral part of the strict laws of nature, both in the material and the spiritual sense.
Sanctity is a natural result and response to the Creator's universal laws; a natural response.
Often the mistake is to think that the sanctity found in man, is to obey certain laws which God brought into existence long after man came into existence. Not so. While God has tried to teach mankind to be holy,
He has only tried to point out
what the natural harmony of creation is,
and how we are able to be part
of this natural harmony.
Sanctity has always been an intricate part of the universe and always will be.
As the basis of creation is existence, knowledge and love, sanctity then means abiding harmoniously with these basic fabrics and their energies. As simple as that
We have considered the tree. That tremendous writer, Frank Sheed, has discussed the tree: to see the wholeness of the tree, he says, we must see all of it, including the fact that it is 'God-bathed'.
That is to say, in the natural course of creation, the tree came from God; created by Him. In having knowledge of the tree's existence, in this manner of understanding, we acknowledge love for the tree in the sense that our knowledge of it includes its God-bathedness.
In so far as the tree is a part of God's creation it is lovable. Not that we love the tree as we love our neighbour.
The Son of God said that 'only God is good'. Yet, when God created the various stages of the universe, He noted of each 'He saw that it was good'.
God is, of course, good to perfection. And, everything that God created was sanctified, for everything was 'good' as far as 'good' can be ascribed to anything created.
The harmony of creation, which is sanctity, has the ultimate aim for mankind of sharing in the very Existence, Truth and Love that is God.
So, sanctity dictates that we participate in the material as well as the spiritual laws of harmony, for we exist in these and are part of them. We will always be part of them, being creatures, even when we share the Godhead, just as the Christ will, for we are created for Christ; to attain our destiny, in Him.
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