Sacred Letters From A Damned Fool

“For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold,

it shall come down…upon the people of

my curse, to judgment.”

Isaiah 34:5

 

Dear Goddesses and Gods of the Universe,

I didn’t really like the idea of starting a war in Your name today so I thought I would write You a letter instead, since my prayers tend to be so formal and coldly indifferent. I mean I never pray to begin with, I think I have prayed perhaps five times in my entire life.

I didn’t want to alienate you by seeming as if I am as far removed from You as other faiths portray themselves in the presence of their deities so a letter seemed more along the lines of something I would send to a friend, family member or loved one in which esteem I try to hold you as it is a personal relationship after all. If only I knew where to send this letter…

As I actually have a personal relationship with you in this quasi-polytheistic, natural-spiritual sense (oddly like family, friend or loved one) and don’t have to prove this to my neighbor or anyone else by having to convert them by bloodshed or killing them for not converting and in the same sense who would condemn their loved ones anyways? Well I’m getting off track now.

What I’m trying to get at is that I just have to live a good life and be a good person so that others around me may somehow benefit from the gifts I have, whatever they may be, I can’t keep this much awesomeness to myself, that would be extremely rude.
However, I do condemn so many for their actions based on what they claim to be religious tenets, etc, and they in turn point their fingers at me. I can’t stand the things that are done in the name of religion. They seem very “special” in that way that’s not good to be special if you know what I mean.

Seriously though, how can I not see every ancient Pantheon in my everyday life though when You have given us so much to every faith and spirituality around the world for so long? If there was one person in the world that wanted me to believe that that your Pantheon is nothing but devils and demons or myth and legend when the whole basis for their beliefs lie in what you have given them then am I the misguided one? If this is faith I will be a heathen, pagan or infidel any day of the week It’s mind boggling really. I’m just saying.

So in my own little way this is a thank You for all things they don’t understand yet as well as those things I have yet to understand. I’m not a big people person as the things I see most people say or do is just beyond me. Humans seem a foreign species that I’ve been forced to live with as a social experiment so I had to learn a lot of different coping skills to deal with the, at times what I think of as insane things, but all the same I don’t understand like I said. So, thank You.

As above, so below…and to the left, and right…and forwards, and backwards…and most importantly the center.

Amen, So Mote It Be, Hallelujah

Matthew 6:10
May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be
done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Try to have someone prove what their favorite color is in a logical argument. They must give evidence, present facts, a background, any influences and finally justifications. If any question were to arise as to whether they favor another color besides the one presented, even partially, then they were actually lying during the presentation of their argument. If the majority surrounding them is in agreement that there is a more highly favored color among them, then this particular group should form a faction, one of their callings or tenets to be to condemn anyone favoring another color.

Then we shall organize it not into a council or assembly of like-minded people, not a group of artisans under a common cause but a religion. We will call this new religion Monochromatism, where the god of this religion would obviously command “Thou shall have no other colors before me.” Now the artists of the world can only use the colors prescribed and accepted as their new faith.

Well then the schisms begin because members have become apostates and prefer different colors or more than one color which of course is heresy and blasphemous. This will be called the Great Pigmentation, when the people become apostates, breaking away from the one true trinity of Black, White and Grey.

Through the natural progression of time many such schisms will occur beginning with Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Violet.

The multitudes of hues and shades will schism for reasons of a divinely inspired nature which no one else can understand but them because they were especially chosen by the most recent color. These newest sects create Magenta, Cyan, Brown, Fuchsia, and Pink.

And now because all factions desire to be the truest color inevitably a series of wars ensue over the next few millennia to destroy the others colors and secure their power, all the while more factions are created and alliances are formed. Despite how well these colors complement each other, or how much they contrast, the varying tones of such a Lightness-Darkness Axis are easily soluble.

For what purpose, and to what end are these battles fought? What we end up with is a massive spectrum of colors and values that make up everything we see. We are all part of what makes up the world in which we live. No one god is somehow superior, and no one faith is superior. How is anything else any different? By bloodshed? Coercion? Divine wrath and holy wars do not make one color perfect, to be held as sovereign over all others. They are all parts of the whole.

Faith Without Works, The Diatribe

James 2:26
Just as the body is dead without breath,
so also faith is dead without good works.

What is faith? What is faith without works? We believe. We take action. But do we do enough to make a difference? Or do we do too little allowing what has come before to be the paradigm? Is this we will ever know as the highest truth? What is faith without the darkness and the unknown? From the unknowable and innumerable all faith stems forth. Faith is darkness manifest and a pure certainty in the unknown, the belief that something resides in the dark recesses of reality though we have nothing to prove it to ourselves or others. And we gladly embrace it. What is religion other than philosophies rooted in very basic principles and core questions about the unknown that influences that which is now considered to be known? Is tradition indeed the highest truth?

Faith means nothing if it becomes just another tool of excuses or war in the hands of those who would wield ignorance to gain more power or influence. DO I DO THE SAME THINGS WITH MY RAMBLINGS? I hope this is not the case. I encourage the quest of all souls to find what it means to be human and not some anonymous super human nor vilified subhuman. In working to find answers to those things we do not understand we inevitably advance ourselves though it has come at a great price through the ages.  Seeking after the unknown inadvertently brings about unexpected answers or results to those questions we have yet to ask or even yet to comprehend.

We must be cautious with the actions we say are based on faith, for wars have raged over less. When we use our emotions tempered with logic and our faith moderated by doubt we will be able to answer the calling of restoring religion and faith to its rightful place, not as an institution of fear, violence and bigotry in the name of the select few but a common ground for all people to advance and seek answers to the most basic human questions. Why are we here? What is the meaning of life? Why is there evil in the world? Perhaps we have relied on the answers we have been handed too long? I believe so. But that is my belief.

However, in order to find answers we must all seek our own destiny and must take action to create those things we desire as they will not manifest themselves on desire alone. I heard a saying once, “God can move mountains, but you had best bring a shovel.” It is at this junction that I invite you to your destiny. Let our faith take a temporary rest while we start shoveling. Let the work begin!