All of civilization constitutes the physical body, the sensible externalization and tangible work of a spiritual manifestation; this we call culture. The ensemble of an era in the life of men is made in the image of men: it has a soul and a body. If culture represents the entirety of movements and works of the soul of a great collective humanity, then civilization represents the exterior manifestations throughout the physical world: literary, theological, liturgical, philosophical and artistic, the fine arts, theatre, legislation and jurisprudence, public morality, social customs civic behavior, politics, uses of war, etc. […] There has never existed a civilization without culture. There has never been a culture that was not founded on a cult. Furthermore, no matter what method is used to examine this, one must understand this word “cult” in its most metaphysical sense and its most religious breadth.
Throughout all eras, as even the most primitive and grotesque cults have demon-strated to us, man is haunted by the mystery and origin of life, this life that he had received and could transmit, but did not give to himself. Man has always been aware that he could not create life, that he was neither the arbiter nor master. Man has always had the preoccupation of searching for the origin and the reason of life in something that is external and superior to himself, something capable of desiring and creating life; existing alone in nature as a person, a being capable of thought and ego—the self—he searches for his origin in another ego, another being that cannot possess limits and the weaknesses of men. This search has been happening since prehistoric times. Man had to wait until present day to see the spectacle of people searching for the origin of their ego in something inferior to themselves and attempt to explain the spirit by way of the material.
— Adrien Arcand, Serviam.
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