From Tristan de Roquelaure:
I take this directly from "The 21 Lessons of Merlyn" by Douglas Monroe:
"It seems that man, more and more these days, is ever-ready to confront his neighbor, saying: 'my concept of God is superior to yours,' or 'God himself has made it known that my reigion is the one, and all others are un-sanctified.' What they do not see, is that people are drawn by sonscience to whichever reigion is best-suited for them at their particular state of spiritual evolution; so, it is another illusion to beleive one right and another wrong. The true question is: right or wrong for whom?...for what kind of person? No one's truth can be stretched to cover
all, and yet man keeps trying -in the name of God no less! Shun man-made truth: that which 'makes God in the image of man;' seak your own path. Never compromise your own spiritual world, for another...never replace the 'I' with the 'We;' yet, as like minds attract, do not be reluctant to join in coimminion with others whose paths are like your own - others with similar religious needs. But never compromise. Religions which insist that they are alone posess Truth to the exclusion of all others, simply display their immaturity; the wise have always seen this. For the world has ever-been, ever-is, and ever-will-be, full of multitudes ready to condem...crowds ready to consider...handfuls ready to move on: the once, twice and thrice born of the world. DO you see why no path could be totaly right for all? Mankind is always one grand mis of a 'people becoming,' at different speeds...which is as it should be!
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...The Christians would replace our Sun with another to light the way: The Son of Jehovah. One 'Sun' for antother! And what is wrong with this? Nothing, I say, for times and world-tides demand it - except that the followers of Christ woudl have their light drown out al other - and this cannot be right. And so they must both exist, one world peaceful within another, the 'man-made' side-by-side with that which is not. In the end, though, all paths lead back to God - sone more directly than others, that is all. But they are all one.
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But as to the nature of God: of 'He who dwells in The Beyond,' there is little we can know, as our Druidic Lore tells. If one wants images of God the Supreme, then talk to a Christian Priest, for they have certenly created God in their own image: a kingly man seated upon a throne of gold, ready to judge man's every infraction toward eternal reward or damnation...a fearful likeness indeed, but their picture nonetheless. And yet concerning this matter of image, I have never really understood, for their own Apostle Paul - odviously a wise man - wrote one in a letter to the romans:
"For as much as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to thing that the Godhead is like unto gold, silver, ston or any image graven by art, device, or the imagination of man."
It is by similar account of such wisdom, that the Druids named the Great Spirit 'Hen Ddihenvdd,' or "one who is without origin.' THe Third Circle of
Ceugant becomes his abode utterly, which man cannot enter, for no man within the realm of Abred can comprehend such a pressence; God is beyond our
thinking powers. Mankind feels this truth as a frustration, and so sdorns the imfinate with finte trappings...hollow and transitory.
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As men, we can no more easily grasp the infinity, than we can the enigma: 'what lies beyond space?' or 'what existed before time?' Think on it, Arthur: if a man was posessed wioth eternal youth, and could travel through space un-obstructed forever, where woudl he end? What lies beyond the boundries of the physcial world...does it have any bounds at all? THe soultion is simple - the anser the same for all men in all ages: WE CANNOT HAVE AN ANSWER. Just as we who are physcial being cannot comprehend Infinity, so are we likewise unable to 'see' God...He who dwells within the Infinite. Our minds are not built for such thining, and it is as simple as this; every image beyond this point becomes artificial...man-made."
It goes on to state about cultures, and how the Greeks molded the gods, and then their beliefs smoldered, and the gods wait for another beleif system to come along and rebuild them again, and that "belief imparts reality", as long as people put their energy into faith.
Always,
Tristan
