Gospel of Aradia

"...Diana greatly loved her brother Lucifer, the god of the Sun and of the Moon, the god of Light (Splendor) , who was so proud of his beauty, and who for his pride was driven from Paradise..."

~[The Aradia, C.G. Leland, 1899]

The Slumbering Lord

Lately, as I have been sitting at my desk at work half working and taking my break in the court yard here at the paper.

And as the cold Las Vegas air rushes round, a thought comes to me. A thought that at times feels like it's coming from left field. Lately, I have been thinking of Dionysus as a slumber god that awakens come spring. Or if you will a kinda of resurrection and thus bring his gifts to us....I know it sounds crazy but for some reason as I try to dismiss this concept that I don't know where it came from, the more it pops up....

I don't know where it came from or why I keep seeing this vision in my head-The lord that slumbers and awakens again.

Thoughts?

As Magaly requested....

here is the pentacle that i bought for myself.....

It's based on strega's cimaruta....

Enjoy.

A quick note....

Just a quick note my friends, as of right now I'm on my way out the door to head to work, but I wanted to take a moment and wish everyone a happy friday the 13th.

And say that I received my first pentagram pendant and am wearing it. For the longest time I refused to wear one. Not cuz I was embarrassed by my paganism but just that we most pple look at it assume that you are Wiccan, at least in my experience. But something said get one and I did. It incorporates the Cimaruta from Strega plus the pentagram...It screamed my name...So i did it. and let me tell you that I am wearing as we speak with a great big smile on my face. Who knew that alil piece of jewelry could make one so happy.

I promise to blog more this weekend.......

A Rambling.

I suppose it can be said that my path has non-classical religious elements mixed in. Now that isn't an issue to me, perhaps to others, but then again, I stay away from def. labeling my path. I think that leads to a lot of miscommunication, but that is a different story. However, why do I bring this up?

Several posts back, I think it was several posts back, I had mentioned that I was heading back to the drawing board regarding the explorations in to the Book of Mormon that i was doing in connection with Moroni. Now I have back and fourth played with different ideas, concepts that may have or may not have worked out well. With some saying that I'm forcing it to work etc. However, looking over some of the blog entries some stick out in my head more than others. For example, a connection with the Nephites|Lamanites being in a way the Daemones Chrysean|Daemones Argyean or just being Daemones of the American Continent. In the same way that Europe has spirits of nature etc. And with that in mind, the ancients also had cultural ancestors etc. With some thought, reading, and reworking, I have figured that based on these several concepts, I have decided to not force them, Nephites & Lamanites, into just a being nature spirits, but instead i have called them Daemones Nephites and Daemones Lamanites. And when I use daemon, I am not using it to mean demon, to the ancients the word Daemon simply meant spirit, you had good spirits Daemones Agathoi etc.

And like this I suppose they make sense to my Classical Polytheistic path. But I don't seem them just as Daemons(spirits), I also see them being in line with the Atlanteans- ya know the ones, famous in Plato's work :). Like this to me at least, I pay homage to figures that are important to the BoM mythos, but also to Moroni's mythos.


I guess all said and done I'm declaring how i see this figures-but on the other hand the purpose of this post i suppose is to say that, I believe that we all include different elements into our religious paths, whether we realize, do it on purpose, or something just tugs at us and seems right on including that element.

But more important by doing so my religious path is growing and being enriched by these outside elements. And while watching youtube, I see people do it to, and i'm realizing that syncreticism, eclecticism isn't an issue for some. Thank the gods i'm not recon and frequent those boards few and far between. But am I alone? Perhaps not based on youtube and some of the blogs that i read-or maybe i'm just more vocal about it and no issue sharing with all of the blog world, "hey, come here read this...".

I have had it said that I'm quite comfortable sharing my beliefs and thoughts over some herbal tea with friends and pple that I think matter to me. People that I know I can share with and discussion will happen where new ideas will be born and come into being just by talking about it. I think i'm digressing, i never could stay on topic...

But by bringing in non classical polytheistic elements from other sources, i think it's a responsible thing to do. I mean by doing so, on some level i'm acknowledging that I live in the modern world-not the ancient-but with an foundation on ancient understandings on how to deal with other gods of other lands makes my personal expression i think interesting. For example, most recons are hard polytheists, meaning, basically that they from what i have experienced is that god X belongs to X religion and doesn't belong in your path etc. I have never agreed to this. I don't think a god belongs to anyone or religion for that matter. The gods are fluid ever changing beings they defy category and placement. Only the human mind places things, beings etc into categories that make us feel better and comfortable. I believe in acknowledging that this boy lives in the modern world filled with spirits, beings, ancestors that weren't acknowledged back in the day.

And i think my path grows in beauty every day that i take the time and praise the gods and spirits of my personal path.

Every So Often...

Every so often, i get in this phase of where i worry what others think of my path-
It's almost like i don't want to be viewed as a crazy nut bag etc. And I often find my self asking why do I worry about what others think of MY path-it's not their path, so why does their input matter to me? I am honestly unsure as usually I don't care what others think of my path, I mean it works for me, it might not work for them and while some offer input, others offer crits of my path.

I guess with putting my path, well in the form of this blog, out there-i guess it's open for crits. And while they don't bother me, sometimes some take me a back. Some can be hurtful. And while the hurtful comments. And there are times when the loneliness kicks in-being solitary can be very lonely-and while i connect with some of my fellow solitary eclectic pagans out there via blogspot, AIM, Y! Messanger, the loneliness subsides.

I guess I'm just having one of those days, if that makes sense-

The Elijah Wall

This was in my email today from the Reform Mormonism list that I'm on and thought i would pass it on here to perhaps help others :

http://www.theelijahproject.blogspot.com/