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Devotion to the Gods and Transcending Time

December 15, 2007 at 11:28 am by mahud

For the part week I’ve be taking time out, meditation and praying before my altar of the Cosmic Threshold God in the guise of Cernunnos. It’s curious actually, because I was wholly unaware that My initial sessions corresponded with the waning and waxing of the moon, which for me corresponds with threshold of death and life which leads to the gateway of the sacred.

As yet I haven’t experienced anything to dramatic. I have felt some kind of physical presence within my body, but nothing like my previous divine encounters when I was a Christian. Also, Part of my prayers involve inviting other deities and asking if they could help and guide me in various aspects of my live.

One of my main difficulties as I see it is my ingrained notion of linear time, which causes me both anxiety about the future and regret about the part. I’m hoping that I can break away from the linear model, and really start identifying with the circular model of time, where the past, present and future of all created things come together within the threshold of death and life and transport us beyond Cosmic-time, into a kind of sacred-realm that infuses the present with the sacred mode of existence.

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  1. Aquila ka Hecate

    Comment on December 17, 2007 at 4:59 am

    More like a spiral than a circle, Mahud.
    Each turn takes you to a new level, although there are sometimes dramatic correspondences with the same point on the spiral the turn before.
    (Sorry about the clumsy English!)
    It’s a lifetime’s ride - or more than one lifetime, if reincarnation is a fact-which I deeply suspect to be true.
    Great to see you back. I was just lamenting your absence.
    Love,
    Terri in Joburg

  2. mahud

    Comment on December 19, 2007 at 9:47 am

    I can go with the spiral symbol :D

    Cosmic-Lunar cycles also contain the idea of spiritual ascent and decent (although it a much more fatalistic manner), and I often think of the serpent circles of the caduceus as a kind of cosmic ladder between the earth/underworld and heaven, much like the Kundalini serpent the rises upwards from the base of the spine to the crown of the head, which can be seen as a symbol analogous with the spiral.

    Thanks Terry :D

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