“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path”
2 Comments | December 29, 2008 at 7:45 pm by mahud
Filed under Sacred Texts, Brendan Myers, pagan wisdom
While I enjoy reading mythology and gleaning religious metaphor from mythic iconography. That are times when I am completed by the eloquence of the written word, especially in a spiritual context. The prolific Pagan Scholar Brendan Myers has recently released a book titled A Pagan Testament. Frequently, I need desire spiritual direction through the creative word. One of the elements of Christianity that I miss.Despite this, there are a multitude of Pagan wordsmiths online, ever ready to share their wisdom of experience with the online Pagan community. These creative individuals are my psychopomps, leading me through the cyclic ebb and flow of life’s labyrinthine.
a modern mythological religion such as Wicca or Goddess spirituality ought not be despised or rejected on the grounds alone that it draws on rather ahistorical myths such as a universal Goddess which cannot be found in any actual historical pagan culture or a universal Horned God which resembles a specific Jungian archetype much more closely than it does resemble anything in the ancient world.
Spiritual Anarchism: Myth and History in Modern Paganism
When I participate in or write of the Gifts of Giving, about making my offerings of incense to the Gods, or when I pour my libations and I feel touched and embraced by my nearest and dearest Deities. It’s happening.
Chrysalis: I’d like to think I am another, budding, Gospel Pagan!
Eris, on the other hand, bribes no one as does Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. She kills no one as do all the Spartan and Trojan soldiers and she steals no one away from another as Paris does. And she doesn’t shirk her duty like Zeus; she does her job. She uses her shiny golden apple as a tool to unmask those around her. She stirs things up and forces the various individuals to reveal, and hopefully eventually face, their faults.
Magic in These Hills: Eris and Her Shiny Golden Apple
The Nataraja Himself takes on this form, raising Himself to make us realize the beauty of this form, as the crescent moon dances on his head, tossing among the gentle locks on his jatamukuta.
Indian Temples and Iconography: Lord Shiva Nataraja, the rhythm of life
Spirit and Matter are co dependant. They are so inextricably intertwined in one another that not even death completely separates them. Spirit suffuses every atom of Matter, and Matter interpenetrates Spirit from each and every one of those atoms. Spirit Matters, and Matter is en Spirited.
Aquila ka Hecate: Spirit Matters
When we reach out in meditation and ritual we invite Their attention. We acknowledge Them and, over time, They may acknowledge us. From this contact bonds of love, honor and respect may grow.
Silver Maple: Imagining Deity
