Gaia

In the beginning the Goddess dreamed within the undifferentiated plenum.
The plenum was of multifold dimensions
It seethed with fractal bubbles which linked all scales of reality.
And she moved within and upon the face of the quantum foam,
In wholeness, in a timeless place.
The matrix of the Goddess was empty
And all universes were united all in her embrace.
There was no past and no future, no up or down.
The laws and the form of the microscopic was identical to the macroscopic.
As Above, so was Below;
There was no division into Goddess and not-Goddess.
There was only one plenum and the one Goddess
Was as the water flowing in the depths of the ocean.

And the Goddess waited for an eternity,
And then for yet another eternity,
And an eternity of eternities.
And the Goddess desired pleasure, but she found it not.
Who will bring me pleasure? she sighed.
So she split into three so that she could create pleasure and enjoyment.
And the three forms were the Nymph, the Mother and the Crone.
The Nymph is what has been,
The Mother is what is,
The Crone is what shall be.

And the three linked into a circle of life.
And their pleasure created a feedback loop.
Linked into that loop the Goddess sang her world-shattering song.
And the feedback loop ascended to the highest energy state, the orgasm.
And the Goddess saw that the orgasm was good.
And at that moment infinite possibilities
Arose out of the quantum foam and the plenum shattered.
All the multiverses came into being and the Goddess entered into them.
Time and space came into existence.
Energy and Matter came into existence.
And the multiverses began to split into a multitude of universes,
Each universe with a different history and set of physical parameters.

And the Goddess saw that the multiverses were good.
And that was the first orgasm.
When we experience orgasm we take an infinitesimal sip
Of the cup of the ecstasy of creation.

Trillions of eons passed.
The multiverses evolved and many new forms of the Goddess emerged.
Some multiverses were empty or sparse.
Some were filled with energy that could not cool.
In some time ran backwards, or sideways.
And all of the universes were pregnant with the form of new Goddesses.
And the Goddess was not yet satisfied,
As her passion knows no boundaries.
So she split into more forms, her sisters,
One for each multiverse.
And she loved all of them,
And found satisfaction for a time.
And each Goddess split into an infinite number of forms.
But after an eternity the Goddess was again yearned for new lovers.

And the Goddess sang to her sisters:
We will cause these multiverses to evolve.
For diversity and the infinite combinations it produces
Will create new consciousness.
So to seed this spectrum of possibilities
She created the rainbow,
And she and her sisters embraced the rainbow
And fertilized all of the creations without ceasing,
Bringing matter into existence and causing time to flow forward.
For consciousness needs distinctions between past, present and future
And a vessel to hold it.

Each multiverse ran for trillions of eons,
And matter and energy split,
And each divided into numberless forms.
And the microscopic was distinguished from the macroscopic
And each had different but similar laws.
Particles coalesced into atoms.
Atoms coalesced into large scale structures.
Large-scale structures birthed galaxies.
And the galaxies birthed nebulae.
And the nebulae birthed stars.
Stars birthed planets and moons and comets and asteroids.
The planets cooled and water and gasses moved on the face of the planets.
On the surface of the waters,
In the voids between the stars and deep in the nebulae,
Wherever atoms linked into long chains,
There was a soup of organic molecules.

And the Goddess sang
"Let the long chains of atoms become self-replicating
And evolve into my image".
And the thunder of the Goddess's world-shattering song
Struck the surface of the waters,
And the chains started to replicate.
And that was the origin of life.

But life was not yet conscious.
So the Goddess said: I will encode a language into the soup.
The alphabet of this language will be amino acids
And the grammar will determine what form a organism will become,
And how long it will live
And all the possibilities of the organism,
For all the days of its life.
And she translated into this language her song.
And she took the dream she had dreamed in the plenum
And wrapped it around her song.
And the song caused the molecules to evolve into more complicated forms.

This is the song of the Goddess dreaming
In a timeless place;
This is the voice we hear when we strive to reach heaven,
The realm of the rainbow serpent,
The place where the Goddess walked
In that first dreamtime
In the springtime of existence
When she started the evolution of life.
For we long to reunite with the Goddess
And all her sisters, even though we know it not.

No Author stated.

Found in Amethyst's Wicca Pages.

Gaia

The Death of God?: England's 'Jurassic Coast' Yields Subversive
Dinosaur Fossils


Reminders of the prehistoric past keep surfacing in a rich dinosaur
graveyard in southern England. What a girl named Mary Anning found
there in the 1800s began to dismantle the Bible's account of creation
-- and anticipated the theory of evolution.

By Marco Evers

You can download the complete article over the Internet at the
following URL:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...528120,00.html

itsmeeeeeee

no odin was a norse king. out of desperation during a period of war - he hung himself upsidedown by one ankle over a pool of water - (the hanged man pose depicted in the tarot) and asked for guidance. the pool beneath him began to bubble, and the rune stones appeared.

after studying comparative religion which lead to ancient oracles, i studied tarot, i-ching, and then stumbled onto the runes. tarot turned me off the more i worked with it because it was about manipulating future events. i-ching was okay, but much too involved, and time consuming for me.

i fell in love with odin. to me, the runes aren't about magically obtaining the power to manipulate future events. they are about seeing the complete picture from ALL angles in terms of other energies at play which may not be apparent to you in any given situation. they give you some advice, but mostly just clarify WHAT IS right now.

i'm not spiritually into manipulating things - becoming a "magician" - which is what tarot is all about. i'm into taking what comes and learning to react and deal more wisely with WHAT IS.

emmanuel, bartholomew, seth, etc. are what i'd call "old school" new age channels.

they were some of the first original spirits to surface in the dawning of that "age" of spirituality. a lot of new ones surfaced after that, but quite frankly, the newer ones didn't pass my personal "sniff test" at the time - and i kind of out grew the need for "mediators" once i got my own personal connection established, via odin and a cosmic creature with no facial features who showed up - kind of like a muse - repeatedly in my drawings, who i originally called "meta". i later realised that meta was my "higher self" and she came to embody me in all my drawings. you know how the buddhists say that our greatest barrier to enlightenment is our failure to see that we ALREADY are enlightened? (the christian version being "the kingdom of heaven is within") well, meta was my enlightened self - and she helped me realize that i already KNEW this stuff... the "me" in my tight shoes.

consequently, i no longer seek meta's input - and think of her as my "gut" or conscience.

after many years of consulting odin through my runes, i got so i no longer needed the runes to consult him to hear him, either. if i'm confused about something, all i have to do is state the situation in my mind and the image of a rune will pop into my head. quite frequently, a rune symbol will surface in an unexpected place (a road sign, a jet trail, the outline of a couple of trees on a horizon, etc.) and i know what it's telling me. about the only time i even touch my runes now is when i've lost something - and i don't even take them out of the bag - i just hold them for a minute, and then i know where what i've lost is. it works EVERY time!!!!!

i still do readings for other people who ask me to occasionally.

but i prefer to give these people a set of runes in an attempt to get them to use them, themselves. i mean, why go to someone else, when the WHOLE idea of all this is to take your OWN spiritual journey? right?

if you're interested in exploring the runes, i would highly recommend the standard set.
it comes with a wonderful little book by ralph h. blum.
the runes are the simplest, and most eloquent spiritual oracle for self discovery i've even found, in my opinion.
but different things work for different people.

the best advice i can give you is look into POSITIVELY EVERYTHING - and then follow whatever rings your OWN inner bells.

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Gaia

True. And all that conquering nations costs money. Lots of money. As with all Empires, they simlpy after awhile, go out of business/broke. Curiously, Rome borrowed alot of the spiritual practices of the nations they conquered. Which for some reason, I find odd. Did the Etruscans not have Gods? Or did they deem themselves Gods? I'm going to have to brush up on that. I'm endlessly fascinated with history.

Comicsartist

The basis of Etruscan religion was the fundamental idea that the destiny of man was completely determined by the vagaries of the many deities worshipped by the Etruscans. Every natural phenomenon, such as lightning, the structure of the internal organs of sacrificial animals, or the flight patterns of birds, was therefore an expression of the divine will, and contained a message which could be interpreted by trained priests such as Augurs.


Read more at http://www.mysteriousetruscans.com/religion.html

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Dawnling

...and the Augers could be paid to sway results

Gaia

What an interesting read! Thank you so much for posting this link!

That was quite a Pantheon they had to keep up with. So basically the Romans adhered to the Etruscan belief system. They (romans) were very superstitious, saw signs everywhere, as in the flight of birds, etc. Nero never made a move without consulting his soothsayers first.

There are many similarities in most ancient religions of varying cultures. And as I see it, they all sought to understand existance. And attempted to placate nature.

The_Heretic

No, that's correct. In western esoteric traditions there's a concept of The Sacred Marriage, where the masculine and feminine come together. The masculine is the material and physical while the feminine is the realm of spirit, and together they form soul. The Hebrew Star of David is a similar idea. The down pointed triangle is the spitirual reaching down and the upward triangle is the physical reaching up.

According to Hindus, Buddhists and Gnostic Christians that's precisely it.

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"Enough!!" -so rang Barack Obama's voice off the walls of Mile High Stadium

The_Heretic

Their traditions probably are a little different, but it I recall their gods are also similar to the Greeks'.

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Gaia

They are. Greek = Appollo, Roman = Adonis, Greek = Aphrodite, Roman = Venus, and so on.

There are alot of similarities in most of the ancient Pantheons. The names were different, but the description of the Gods and their functions are basically the same.

You have your Father God, who has a Mate, who is the Mother Goddess. And then there is their offspring, who are always getting in trouble.

Perhaps the Gods of our ancient ancestors were an extension/projection of themselves?