Adler, Margot -- Drawing Down the Moon
Hence the growth of witches of the old
greenwood tyope, the dancers of the gods.
Nakedness, sex, song and dance are their
marks...
C.A. Builen
I believe Christ was a genuine avatar of the
Great Mother - a Dionysus incarnation, pretty
much. His worship has been dreadfully
perverted. They have turned him into this
dreadful sort of pathetic thing instead of the
sacrifical god of Inspiration.
Sheila Devlin
But one of the things about the old witches,
they protected their community from oppression
to the greatest of their ability to do so.
Sheila Devlin
In fact, I think the big mystery of our
society is that men and women are exactly
alike and that this truth is being hidden
under an incredible load of bullshit.
Sheila Devlin
the dancer who plays a god in a sacred rite
cannot be said to worship his god, he lives
him, experiences him.
Ellen Harris
Aristotle
Reason is a light that God has kindled in the
soul.
Art of Rhetoric (384-322 B.C.)
Crossley-Holland, Kevin -- The Norse Myths
25|The Lay of Loddfafnir
Listen, Loddfafnir, and listen carefully!
Never waste time on a witless ape. When
one man can open his heart to another, that is
true friendship; nothing is worse than a
liar and no true friend tells you only what
you want to hear.
Listen, Loddfafnir, and listen carefully!
If you know of some evil, ensure everyone
knows all about it, and do not make peace with
your enemies.
Now the High One has spoken in the hall -
words for the good of the sons of men,
accursed words for the sons of giants. Hail to
the speaker and him who listens! May whoever
learns them prosper because of them! Hail to
those who listen!
L'engle, Madeleine
The New Testament reading, too, is a promise,
a promise that what God creates, he will not
abaondon, that ultimately, we will be as we
were meant to me.
~A Severed Wasp
Nietzche, Fredrich
The only God worth believing in is a dancing
God.
~Fredrich Nitzche
Pauly, Hans Ulrick
It's like the old Babylon mythos said: once
you create something in stone, that image is
part of the globe, [its] not lost. That's why
when heads and faces were scratched in stone
-- especially those of the kings, the most
powerful men at the time -- they were godlike.
jewlery magazine interview; he engraves faces
in semi-precious stones
Stigmata
The Kingdom of God is inside you, and all
around you; not in mansions of wood and stone.
Split a piece of wood, and I am there.
from nobeliefs.com
http://www.nobeliefs.com/great-quotes.htm
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
-Last words of Gotama Buddha, in Theravada
tradition
Ubi dubium ibi libertas: where there is doubt,
there is freedom.
-Latan proverb
I do not feel obliged to believe that same God
who endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect had intended for us to forgo their
use.
-Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious
conviction.
-Blaise Pascal (Pensees, 1670)
There is nothing which can better deserve our
patronage than the promotion of science and
literature. Knowledge is in every country the
surest basis of public happiness.
-George Washington (address to Congress, 8
January, 1790)
I do not believe in the creed professed by the
Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the
Greek church, by the Protestant church, nor by
any church that I know of. My own mind is my
church.
-Thomas Paine (The Age of Reason)
If there be gods we cannot help them, but we
can assist our fellow-men. We cannot love the
inconceivable, but we can love wife and child
and friend.
-Robert Ingersoll (Why I am an agnostic)
Virtually every major technological advance in
the history of the human species-- back to the
invention of stone tools and the domestication
of fire-- has been ethically ambiguous.
-Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World)
from the holy books
The Bible
The earth was without form and void, and
darkness was upon the face of the deep; and
the Spirit [or wind] of God was moving over
the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:2
Do not neglect to show hospitality to
strangers, for thereby some have entertained
angels unawares.
Hebrew 13:2
For you shall go out in joy, and be led forth
in peace; the mountains and the hills before
you shall break forth into singing, and all
the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the
cypress; instead of the brier shall come up
the myrtle; and it shall be to the Lord for a
memorial, for an everlasting sign which shall
not be cut off.
Isaih 55:12-13
Hide them in the dust together and bind their
faces in secret.
Job ? ? ?
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to
owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones
are burned with heat.
Job 30:29-30
He has shown thee, O Man, what is good and
what the Lord requires of me--but to do justly
and to do mercy and to walk humbly with thy
God.
Micah 6:8
There is a way which seems right to a man,
but its end
is the way to death. Even in laughter the
heart is sad,
and the end of joy is grief.
Proverbs 14:12-13
The voice of the Lord makes
the oaks to whirl
and strips the forest bare;
and in his temple all cry, "Glory!"
The Lord sits enthroned as King
forever.
May the Lord give strength to his people!
May the Lord bless his people with peace!
Psalm 29:9
And a great portent appeared in heaven, a
woman clothed with the sun, with the moon
under her feet, and on her head a crown of 12
stars; she was with child and she cried in her
pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.
Revelations 12:1-2
The Talmud
Whoever saves a single life, it is though
they saved the entire world.
prayers
old Egyptian blessing
May God stand between you and harm in all the
empty places you must walk.
Islamic prayer for the dead
Oh, Allah, forgive him and have mercy upon
him. Grant him peace, and pardon.
St. Bernard's prayer
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary that
never was it known that anyone who fled to Thy
protection, implored Thy help, or sought Thy
assistance was left unaided. Inspired by this
confidence, O Virgin of Virgins, my Mother, I
fly unto Thee, to Thee do I come, Before Thee
I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the
word incarnate, despise not my petitions and
my needs but in Thy mercy hear and answer me.
Amen.
