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  Article 60-Celebration  
60.1 Celebration  
  To be human and to be alive is cause for celebration. While our lives vary from periods of regret and hurt, we also experience periods of happiness and joy.  
  To be human is to participate at some point in celebration with others. In its simplest form it might be a celebration at the birth of a new family member. A celebration of one's birthday is often an occasion to join with others. The celebration of a marriage, or the funeral celebration of someone who has passed.  
60.2 Physical celebration  
  Throughout human civilization, to celebrate is to celebrate physically, in one place at one time.  
  In ancient cultures, this celebration might have included dance and ceremony at some sacred landmark or temple. For two millennia, worship is more likely to have occurred in a church, temple or mosque.  
  In recent years, the advent of the nightclub and audio visual music systems has opened up a whole new form of celebration, the celebration of the dance.  
  To celebrate is to be human. It is good to rejoice. It is good to grieve. To celebrate these emotions together is the essence of what it is to be part of a human community.  
  The following pages provides a model for community ritual and celebration that is aligned to the model of UCA.  
60.3 Organized Celebration  
     
 
LEVEL NAME CELEBRATION TIME
  Transition Pregnancy  
  Natal Birth  
  Baptism Aged 2  
  Adventus Aged 12  
  Bel Espirit Aged 19  
  Genius Aged 33  
  Beau Ideal 50 to 70  
  Haga Sofia 70 to death  
  Adieu On knowledge of imminent death  
  Resolution The moment of dying and death  
  Veneration The moment of transition to angel, ghost  
  Unity Celebration of Unity  
Union Union of marriage  
 
     
     
 
 

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