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The altar, a space dedicated to spirituality and inner connection, has played an essential role in many religious and spiritual traditions throughout the ages. Whether a quiet corner in a home or a sacred place within a temple, an altar is a place where practitioners can gather, meditate, and honor the higher forces that inspire them.
Creating an altar and consecrating it is an act full of meaning and power. It is a process that goes beyond simply arranging objects on a surface; it is a ceremony of intention and connection with the divine. In this article, we'll explore the essential steps for creating and consecrating an altar, drawing on traditional and contemporary practices, to guide you in building a sacred space that is uniquely you and nourishes your soul.
What is a spiritual altar?
In the religious domain, an altar is a sacred table used for ritual sacrifice or for depositing offerings. Etymologically, the word "altar" contains two notions: height (from the Latin altar) and food (from the Latin alere, "to feed, to sustenance").
Whatever your religious or other practices, a spiritual altar is a sacred or magical space, dedicated to ritual practices, prayers, etc. It is a privileged space where you can carry out your work in the best conditions.
It is a privileged space where you can carry out your work in the best possible conditions.
A sacred space is similar to a sacristy.
This word "sacristy" contains the ideas of secrecy, sacredness, sacredness. It is a place where one can gather, study, practice exercises without being disturbed.
It's about creating a special place in your home to be dedicated to the sacred and where no one but you can enter. Unless you decide to open this place to the whole family.
This external temple allows you to concentrate better and above all to get into the good habit of keeping the atmosphere, the atmosphere of purity, of Light, of communion which little by little will inhabit the walls of the sacristy through regular work.
Thus, in this place, the luminous spirits can come to visit you and help you. In this place, you will be safe and will be able to draw help, advice, consolation and strength
This sacred space is a place where good works, good deeds, luminous thoughts are woven together and accumulated so that the good vibrations can visit you.
With practice, this outer temple will correspond more and more to an inner place of your soul. Of course, you have to keep in mind that the real temple is the man, it is his soul, his heart and it must become his whole being.
The place of the altar in different traditions
Catholic Altar
In Christianity, an altar is a consecrated table on which, in the Catholic liturgy, the priest celebrates the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, or Eucharist, as a memorial of Christ's Last Supper and a non-bloody renewal of the sacrifice of the Cross. The high altar is the main altar in a church, the one in the center of the sanctuary.
Buddhist altar
The majority of Buddhists who practice regularly have an altar in their home for their practices. It is important to clarify that a Buddhist altar is not a place to worship any god or deity because Buddhism explains that "deities" such as yidams have no reality of their own, which means that they exist only within ourselves.
Tibetan Buddhist Tantric practice differs completely from Hindu Tantric practice in this respect. If the Buddha is placed on the altar, it is not the Buddha physically that is worshipped but what he represents, namely the part of us that is "awakened".
On this altar one places all the Buddhist supports worthy of offering, representing the perfect awakening, such as a bell, statues, photos, sacred texts, etc. One can make offerings on this altar. Offerings such as water, incense, food, etc. can be made here.
In general all offerings should be beautiful to look at and generous in appearance.
Japanese altar
The Japanese worship their ancestors. In the Japanese home, the butsudan is the shrine where this ritual is performed on a daily basis.
Butsudan means Buddhist altar (dan) (butsu). It is a small shrine traditionally found in temples but also in Japanese homes. Its function is to allow each person to venerate Buddha, and through him, the ancestors of the family.
Moreover, it is often the first thing that Japanese people do in the morning, and for some, the last thing they do before going to bed: kneel down in front of the butsudan, join their hands and pray for their deceased relatives.
The butsudan is a central element of Japanese spirituality, as it creates a space and a time for meditation inside the house. It can be found in almost every house in Japanese villages and in more than half of the homes in cities.
Pagan white magic altar or modern witch's wicca altar
A modern Wicca witch altar is a sacred space where magical rituals are practiced.
Creating an altar is not mandatory, but it is important to have your own altar at home for your practices. It is perfectly possible to create altars outside in nature to bless and honor the elements, or to perform full moon rituals.
The purpose of the home altar is to have a consecrated space to do your rituals or practices in complete serenity without being disturbed. It is a place of concentration, a kind of receptacle of energies. Each time you return, you will be able to recharge your batteries. It will be a place of connection and reconnection with the energies that you call.
Where to place your altar?
The altar is in fact a space that you dedicate to your work and to the sacred practice that you can perform daily or as often as you wish.
This space can be a room that you dedicate only for your work, if you have one, or it can be a part of a room in which you will place your magical objects and perform your sacred work.
If you have little space and cannot dedicate a place to make your altar, you can simply use your magical objects and create the space of your temple punctually, the time of your work.
If you are traveling or if you are on the move, you will act in the same way by concentrating above all on the spirit and the intelligence of the work.
What is important is to be at what you do and to separate the worlds. That is, when you do your work, you don't do anything else (you don't think about your shopping list or the kids' homework, for example!).
What is the importance of the altar?
It is a consecrated space. Each time you enter this space you will instantly enter into communion with the energy of the place and the work you have already done there.
Thanks to this small place to be arranged according to your artistic sensitivity, all the inhabitants of the house will be surrounded and protected. From it will radiate an atmosphere of serenity, of harmony that will naturally restore right relationships within your home
In every family, in every home, gentleness, love, must be invited on a sacred altar that can be perpetually fed by the inhabitants of the place. Parents and children can gather there together to cultivate devotion, reverence, good intention, good wishes, by means of words and songs practiced in common.
This practice should not be experienced as a constraint, but rather as a necessity, as a call to joy. Preparing a meal can be experienced as a constraint or as a call to joy. Joy should inhabit every house for the good of all its inhabitants.
Thanks to this small place fitted out for beauty and right human relations, no negative force will be able to penetrate in this place of the house. From it will radiate an atmosphere of serenity, of harmony and all the inhabitants of the house will be surrounded and protected by this hearth of force.
This place must be sober and pure. It is up to each one to arrange it according to his artistic sensitivity. It will be a place where thoughts will rise. All the members of the family will be able to go there regularly, rhythmically in order to weave, to form their ideal.
How to create or make a meditation or prayer altar at home?
To create a meditation altar or a prayer altar, the first thing we invite you to do is to get a white tablecloth or a carpet for your altar. You can place it on top of a dresser or on a small coffee table.
Our satin tableclothes are perfect for this purpose.
Next, we invite you to place objects on your altar to connect with the four elements.
Nature is composed of four major elements: Earth, Water, Air and Fire. These elements exist on the material plane, as well as on the subtle plane. Knowing how to work with them is a powerful key to transformation and harmonization.
To connect to the Earth element, you can place stones and crystals on your altar.
To connect to the Water element, place a bowl with water, if possible dynamized, on a symbol of sacred geometry.
To connect to the Air element, you can place a censer or a coal on a bowl or on a simple stone on which you will burn natural incense, palo santo, white sage or essential oils.
Burning incense will help to purify the sacred atmosphere of your temple.
You can also place a vase with flowers next to the altar and use a feather for air.
To connect with the element of fire, use a candle, preferably a natural plant candle and matches to light it.
You can place the candle in front of you and arrange flowers or dried flower petals to make a circle around the candle.
The most important thing is that your temple reflects your soul and your inner being and that when you enter it, you feel good.
Prayer to consecrate your altar at home
Before doing so, a few tips:
It is recommended to perform the purification preparations well. This will considerably increase the magical power of your work.
In order to make the vibration and the radiation of your prayers more powerful, it is good to:
- take a shower, or at least wash your hands and face with water;
- dress in white and clean clothes, if possible reserved for your work;
- purify the place by burning natural incense;
- leave aside everything that comes from the outside world (cell phone, electric light...).
With your candle lit, you can consecrate your prayer altar or space by saying the following words:
"By the ray of my being,
by my thought, word, soul and hands,
I consecrate this place for my magical work
and I ask that it also be consecrated,
filled with light, purity and strength
by all divine beings
who work for the Light
for the good of all beings
and in the will of the Most High.
May this place become a place of prayer,
a space of freedom .
May the silence of the personality reign there
and may it be duly protected from worldly influences."
In this space you have just dedicated, be sure to say your words, prayers and mantras with awareness.
A mantra is a sacred word that is repeated with awareness and life to call up a higher intelligence. Words do not only translate ideas, but also states of being. It is up to you to experience the words you speak as states of being.
When you speak a magic word, think it, feel it from within and turn it into a living experience. Do this until you know it "by heart", until it is anchored in your heart and makes your soul come alive.
Through a simple word, spoken with awareness, you can have an experience that will enrich and beautify your life. These mantras that you repeat every day live within you and around you and thus constitute a land for your soul.
To protect your sacred space, you can use protective symbols such as the Hexagram, the Pentagram or the Cube of Metatron. This can be in the form of a printed canvas, an energizing tray that you place on your altar.
What does this practice teach us?
Creating an altar or a sacred space at home invites us to create a sacred space within ourselves. And in the end, isn't that what's important?
Always be mindful of the idea of preserving a sacred place inside and outside of you for pure beings to live in and be your partners, helpers, protectors, advisors and friends on the path.
It is essential to turn to what is true within, to the depths. We need to create a space within us where we can really breathe another air, another atmosphere, another subtle atmosphere, other thoughts, other states of mind, those that lead us to greatness.
In this space, we will be able to welcome a sacred world and a Light that will be able to touch us by bringing us a higher vision of the world, by showing us a higher aspect of our being.
The fundamental question is: are we really ready to meet ourselves, to embrace this greatness?
The first attitude to acquire is to know how to welcome within ourselves the sense of the sacred, the mystery, the beautiful.
Creating an altar in your home will help you in this process.
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