The memory of the origins, the Myth, has a “pendant” in the tension to the Eternal. Ries explains that the costants of the Sacred are Myth, Symbol and Rite; they are present throughout the history of humanity and have a foot in the Eternal. Without the Eternal, the Sacred withers: the mythical story is “forever” in those who remember it, the symbol is “forever” for those who recognize it, the ritual is the eternal itself in the same instant in which it is fulfilled without clerical hesitations.