The Hindu Temple v1.c7.s2.33

v1.c7.s2.33

By their new destination, wood, clay, stone and plaster, etc. are transubstantiated. This comes about while they are being worked on. In this, however, they are not altogether passive, for they offer their obstacles as well as their particular facilities and these contacts are felt and remembered by the craftsman. Sensibility contributes its own share to a wider memory which comprises all those associations that have accumulated round the bricks or the wood in their traditional employment. A triple memory, that of traditional knowledge, of sensibility and of piety helps to preserve the subtle body, that is the particular quality and aptness of the several substances, severed as they are from their natural life and habitation, in a more permanent body which has but one ultimate destination.