Literary notes about Consecration (AI summary)
The term consecration in literature stretches across the sacred and the profane, serving as a symbol of solemn dedication and transformative ritual. In many works it marks the formal dedication of a space, person, or object to a higher purpose, as seen in religious rites and royal investitures [1], [2], and even Masonic procedures [3], [4]. At times it carries an emotional or metaphoric weight, encapsulating the complete commitment of love or patriotism, such as when a love is sanctified for eternity or a person’s total self is devoted to a higher power [5], [6]. Moreover, consecration is employed to invoke a sense of divine or fated transformation, reflecting both ancient ceremonies and personal metamorphosis in epic narratives [7], [8], [9].
- It was on January 5th, 1066, just after the consecration of his beautiful new Abbey, that the soul of St. Edward passed away.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) by Various - After this came Thomas to Canterbury; and all that the archbishop required of him he humbly fulfilled, and afterwards received consecration.
— from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - After the consecration of the lodge, follows its dedication.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law by Albert Gallatin Mackey - These are its consecration, its dedication, its constitution, and the installation of its officers.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law by Albert Gallatin Mackey - To live near you is paradise; to die with you is the consecration of our love for all eternity.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo by Juliette Drouet and Louis Guimbaud - By one act of consecration of our total selves to God we can make every subsequent act express that consecration.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer - So now this earnest wish is mine, The consecration to resign, And from this city turn away To the wild wood with no delay.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki - Next day, when the solemn consecration of Rāma is to take place, Daçaratha sends for his son and informs him of his fate.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell - That Norse Religion, a rude but earnest, sternly impressive Consecration of Valor (so we may define it), sufficed for these old valiant Northmen.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
