![]() To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices. To honor the sacred is to make love possible. To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity. Only justice can assure balance: only ecological balance can sustain freedom. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. ![]() Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy. No one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves become the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged. ![]() Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of the interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them. The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk was published in 1993 but in the more than two decades since the book has hit the shelves, it has become strangely apt for the times we live in. SAN FRANCISCO It has been nearly a quarter of a century since Starhawkâs seminal novel The Fifth Sacred Thing was released by Bantam Books. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth. ![]()
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