--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > "Seclorum" disputed: > > Actually, your own quote states: "Secular" -- from the adjective > Saecularis: "worldly, secular, of the age" > > In other words it means "secular" also. > > Saecularis MEANS "worldy", "secular", so what is the dispute?
The phrase is NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM, not NOVUS ORDO SAECULARIS. SECLORUM means "of the Ages," or "of the Centuries," whereas if they had meant "Secular" they would have used SAECULARIS. Check out Wikkipedia's entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novus_Ordo_Seclorum for a nice discussion on the phrase's origins and nuances :-)
