Thermal sent me an email including some magick he is working in response to bin Laden’s death. \u00a0I pass it on. \u00a0I think his message is a wise one. \u00a0I am working on a lengthy post on the spiritual dimension of what we call evil, and his post is in harmony with it. \u00a0I think what we call evil is real, powerful, and ultimately a thought form fed by all humanity, probably its creators. \u00a0Bin Laden fed it mightily, but so did George Bush and Dick Cheney and Pat Robertson and many more. \u00a0But before we get too proud of ourselves because we are \u00a0better people than those worthies, we should consider that every time we hate, we send it at least a tid-bit as well.<\/p>\n
Some Pagans point out that Pagans have no requirement to forgive. \u00a0True enough. \u00a0There is a time to even things out. \u00a0I believe what happened to bin Laden was appropriate. But for nearly all of us living in harmony with all our relations is a Pagan value. \u00a0And hatred strengthens all that is out of harmony, both in ourselves and between ourselves and others. We do not need divine commandments from some sky God threatening vengeance on us to do what is appropriate, all we need do is look within in a discerning way, and consider that our world as a whole is sacred.<\/p>\n
Mourning a Lost Child<\/strong><\/p>\n A man was killed this week, and many are celebrating his death.<\/p>\n Many others mourn him.<\/p>\n Whether his killing was the doing of justice or its undoing will be For all his terrible sociopathic deeds, the monstrousness of what he We will never know when the innocent child who grew into the murderous I will mourn the child who was ensnared and crushed by that chain, the Even now it is weaving sinuously before new victims, cloaking itself in Me, I make a different calling. I call to love, the ancient enemy of the I call to love to clear the vision of those who would be ensnared by I call to love to move in us, to help us to unwind that bloody chain Thermal sent me an email including some magick he is working in response to bin Laden’s death. \u00a0I pass it on. \u00a0I think his message is a wise one. \u00a0I am working on a lengthy post on the spiritual dimension of what we call evil, and his post is in harmony with it. \u00a0I think…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,106,105],"tags":[2,5,3],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-pagan-culture","category-pagan-spirituality","tag-current-events","tag-pagan-culture","tag-pagan-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"\n
\ndebated, but it is done. He eloquently advocated killing to achieve
\nreligious or political ends. In the end he was subject to the law he
\nspoke so loudly. Much has been said about the innocent victims of the
\nacts he encouraged and funded, and the people they left in mourning, but
\nI find myself unable to celebrate his death. Instead I find myself
\nmourning him.<\/p>\n
\ndid, he also was a victim of the hatred he advocated. It captured and
\ndestroyed him as surely as it destroyed his victims. It has no mercy,
\nand is as cruel to those who serve it as those who are harmed by it.
\nIndeed to serve it is to be harmed by it.<\/p>\n
\nsociopath became so infected with hate that he began to work in its
\nbehalf. But the forces which converted him are still here, woven into
\nthe fabric of our languages and religions. A long chain of cruelties
\nwhich begat other cruelties has been woven through humanity for
\nmillennia, he was merely one of its latest victims. It may have seemed
\nbeautiful to him when he embraced it and began to work to make more
\ncruelties, but in the end it crushed the innocence and gentle humanity
\nfrom him, and coiled back upon him to take his life.<\/p>\n
\nlove and innocence which was lost. I will not celebrate the death of the
\nmonster, for it is not dead.<\/p>\n
\na mantle of beauty, calling itself justice done before the ones
\ncelebrating the death of its latest victim, calling itself martyrdom
\nbefore those who mourn him. Calling to them to embrace it, and so begin
\nthe making of another link in its ancient and hideous body.<\/p>\n
\nchain of hate, to help me to throw it off from my own heart.<\/p>\n
\nhate, to help them to see its bloody, death-stinking monstrousness.<\/p>\n
\nfrom our doings, to drop it into the sand it has soaked in the blood of
\nthe innocent, and to spurn it beneath our feet as we turn our hands to
\nhealing the wounds it has given us all with its long binding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"