Possibly at present, his state of semi-abandonment subtracts part of that grace or brilliance that he had in other times; but, paradoxical as it may seem, it confers, nevertheless, that degree of transcendent respectability that time and the apparent disorder of nature give to things and places, when free will predominates and not the hand, sometimes so devastating, of man.
Located on the outskirts of Betanzos, not far away, unfortunately, from those partially or fully industrialized areas -including Chinese department stores- the Betanzos Pastime -given to the city by a betanceiro that made the Americas, when Spain went hungry and Galicia he dismissed his children with the bundle full of illusions and some espadrilles to make other roads that were not to Santiago - it is a spiritual compendium of the first order.
Enthralled in its magic, it is difficult not to glimpse dozens of details that induce the spirit to enter parallel worlds: worlds where politics, legend, esotericism, masonic companionship, the magic of architecture, classicism and the occult make up a small habitat of receptive spirituality, which is worth feeling and with which it is not difficult, at all, to let go.
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