I do not think ultimately the framework we choose to use for our religion matters as much as that we make effort to honor the old Gods and bring their worship into the modern world in ways that respect their history.
Morgan Daimler, “The Morrigan: Meeting the Great Queens”, page xi (via thebloodybones)
Perhaps one of the best aspects of Kemeticism is it considers you are a good person to begin with. You aren’t a sinner who requires a savior in order to be considered good.
© MeresAset
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Something will grow from what you are going through. And it will be you.
Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
Invoked or not, the Gods will be present.
The Oracle of Delphi (via advotiya-raskolnikova)
People say that Dark Gods are harsh when crossed or offended –are the other Gods less so? Doesn’t mythology show us that any deity when offended is likely to react badly? People say that Dark Gods are the teachers of hard lessons –but are the other Gods’ lessons any easier? Or isn’t it just that we can feel more comfortable with a Goddess of healing than a Goddess of battle, even though both deserve equal respect?
The Morrigan: Meeting the Great Queens, by Morgan Daimler (via nicstoirm)
Devotion is a way of transforming your emotion from negativity to pleasantness. Just see, people who have fallen in love do not care about what is happening in the world. The way they are, you think they are unrealistic. It is just that they have made their emotions pleasant, so their life is beautiful. That is the state of a devotee. Devotion is a multiplied and enhanced version of a love affair. A devotee is in an unfailing kind of love affair because if you fall in love with a man or a woman, they do not go the way you expect them to, and it eventually gets into some trouble. That is why people choose God. It is simply a love affair, and you are not expecting any response. Your life becomes utterly beautiful because your emotion has become so sweet. Through that sweetness, one grows. That is devotion.
Devotion is another dimension of intelligence. Intellect wants to conquer the truth. Devotion just embraces the truth. Devotion cannot decipher but devotion can experience. Intellect can decipher but can never experience. This is the choice one has to make.
In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours. The god you worship is the god you deserve.
Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living. (via vulturehooligan)
There are gods, who if they catch you groveling at you will scoff in your face. There are gods who abhor worship. There are gods who don’t even require offerings to fulfill requests. There are gods who will tell you to save your food offerings for a starving mortal. There are gods with flaws that give them depth. There are gods who want their authority to be challenged. There are gods who want you to catch them in a lie to prove how discerning you are. There are tricksters and thieves and warriors and oath-takers and deal-makers, and all kinds of gods who prefer getting down in the mud with humans, getting their hands dirty. Gods who require no intercession.
Me, in “Unlearning Western Religion” April 17, 2016 (via bodaciousbanshee)
This is exactly why I love the deities that I do, and why I respect them. I am not interested in gods that are perfect, for I cannot relate to perfection. Show me your flaws and the ways you’ve overcome them, show me you understand the human condition.
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Pay attention when people react with anger and hostility to your boundaries. You have found the edge of where their respect for you ends.
sweatpants & coffee (via infinite-paradox)
Do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the sun.
Legolas, The Two Towers
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