On this day that people in the United States celebrate Thanksgiving, it's a day with a lot of energy, both of thankfulness and of hearth and home, larder and abundance, of friends and family.
It's a day associated with the harvest, like many other days between the Summer and Winter Solstices, though probably the latest harvest festival of the ( Read more... )

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This and the previous post were replies to an email on a list, though I've removed the parts that are relevant only to the message I was replying to.  I liked how I said what I said and figured I'd share it with anyone who wants to read it.

This is in regards the the article Rethinking the Watchtowers by Mike Nichols.  It is from a Wicca perspective ( Read more... )

Ananke:“Originally there was Water [Okeanos?], he [Orpheus] says, and Mud [Tethys the nurse of all?], from which Ge (the Earth) solidified: he posits these two as first principles, water and earth …
The one before the two, however, he leaves unexpressed, his very silence being an intimation of its ineffable nature. The third principle after the two ( Read more... )

The blessed Holy One had to create everything in the world, arraying the world.  All consists of a kernel within, with several shells covering the kernel.  The entire world is like this, above and below, from the head of the mystery of the primordial point to the end of all rungs all is this within that, that within this, so that one is the shell ( Read more... )

Approaching the earthly Garden of Eden, she sees cherubs guarding the gates of the Garden, and she dwells there by that flaming sword, for she emerged from the side of that flame.  As the flame revolves she flees and roams the world, finding children who deserve to be punished, she toys with them and kills them.  This happens in the waning of the ( Read more... )

As above, so below ( Read more... )

According to Reb Hershy in his Torah of Desire, G-d desired to desire us.  In the Constriction, he created a hole in himself, a Desire, in which to create the universe.  But G-d never changes, so this space, this Desire, was always there.  Before the Desire, which of course there was no before, there was the Ain (or Ayin), Nothing, G-d, the ( Read more... )

I learned something interesting in my study of Kabbalah, maybe six months ago or so.  A little background first ( Read more... )