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FÂ IS THE GOD SOOTHSAYER THE GOD OF THE ORACLE
One has the habit to ask Fâ to tell us what is going to happen; the question is to know if it is that its function; if its teaching consists in unfold the rug of the time that we men, we would have no longer broken down to insure us a peaceful existence. It would seem that this is not the case. Listen. ON IT BE ABLE TO TELL THE FUTURE " . .... You know with us now that Fâ is the Spirit of the divination; but most of my compatriots take it in the primary senses of the word; it is - to - tell that one considers the god as that that unveils the future. This is very far, in reality, its function; this attribution is not found in its teaching. These that have formulated the function of this Spirit had never told that; not only they had not told it; but also, they had arranged in order that we do not mislead in this direction......" " - Ah! I do not see. Because if I examine the legend of Fâ, nothing opposes to my notice, to what one attributes it a power of soothsayer; since it knows all. I do not believe in the possibility to know the future;but I understand these that are devoted there on the faith of this Spirit or others. I would want to know why you find that the practical book is distanced of the teaching of the god. " " - You have not understood; you have not seized, you non more, the role that Fâ has to play in the progression of the humanity to the harmony. We go, if you want it well, to resume the history of this god to try to understand. One tells that Fâ guards ways; those of the past as those of the future. One can see there, as you make, the indication of a function of divination; I grant you it. But, one told us also that Fâ will not tell what it is necessary to make or that one does not have to make. Leave that side, because one could have to discuss some indefinitely. See rather what one gives us furthermore, as indications on the god. These indications are found in two situations; situations where we notice contradictions between it be able to know events to come that one would want to attribute to Fâ, and what arrives it really according to the legend. The first contradiction is found in the episode of its marriage with AZIRI. If Fâ could know the future, it would have known that the goddess would leave it later, for the god Gû, the god of the war; and in all logic, it would not have married with AZIRI. What means, for me, that Fâ has not the gift to know the future; that is not therefore its teaching. Seconds the contradiction situates in the history where one finds Fâ in anger against its peers. One told to us that it pulled in the forest. One learns us that to find it and to pacify it, the goddesses of the serenity rendered in the forest and there make a lot noises. Fâ , that not know these or those, that provoke so damages and disturb its exiles; the god had to pose the question to the patrol to know it. For a Spirit that would have the gift that preoccupies us, it is necessary to recognize that this was not conclusive You have to understand that these two adventures are put there to specify the exact senses that it is necessary to give to the teaching of the Spirit Fâ. Here is I believe, what one can tell to find the real meaning of this god. It is necessary to rememberthis. To remember, whole the problem is there; to remind and specify each detail the Spirit; to specify each detail by giving it its real meaning. That remembers today that the Spirit of crossroads, the god of the head, is multiplied. This Spirit "increases," it is - to - tell that its power, increases in us, each time that we honor it. You would understand the meaning of what I come to tell, by remembering you that in our language, "reflective" tells literally "respects your head" as you knew already.
Here is: a long time ago, very long of that; this was as long, very long after the beginning. The first king of the center of the world had sixteen son that were also kings. Each of these son was a way. It is - to - tell, one of roads that men can borrow to find the serenity first, then the harmony of the beginning then; that that was and that been lost. The sixteen ways leave from the center to radiate in all directions and to cover thus, the totality of what has existed; what exists; and what will exist. One has meant by there, whole what God (THE UNIQUE ) has introduced in the beginning. Or if you prefer, if you understand me better, I would tell that these ways cover all what the creation is susceptible to undertake and to generate in acts, in words and in objects of thought. Here is why the soothsayer, after having determined the combination of the moment, that that is clean to that that comes to consult it, tells it the history of the way. That means that the soothsayer tells it the life of one of the sixteen kings; that whose diagram comes to appear during the manipulation. You have to understand that this are there allegories in which the wisdom has enclosed the teaching. It is what we have to hear by "telling the life of the king. " These precepts appear in the form to, and each sees comprises some tens. They constitute the totality of all possible situations in which men can be found in the course their existence; as I have explained it already. And you have to understand that that is not linked to the time. It is necessary me to insist on the fact that the god Fâ is not the author of ways; it is not the author of this wisdom; it is only the guardian. I told therefore that the soothsayer will explain to the consultant, the teaching that relates to the way that is appeared (by its symbol). "- This are commandments then? " "- non; one can not to tell it as that. We can not to tell it thus; because a commandment tidies: it is necessary to make this. A commandment tells that it is necessary to be as this; or it forbids: it does not is necessary to make this; it does not is necessary to make that. This is not what we tell, we. This is not as well as one has to hear the teaching of the god Fâ. It is more an enlightenment or an orientation or well again, a placement in ward that is addressed to require it. There is however, a very great difference; because, we believe that the man is both that that has to put some forms the precept, and that that has to submit there. You have to understand the precept; then, you have to pull some consequences practice for your acts; and especially, you have to follow conclusions to which you have reached. That means that you have to formulate it and you have to apply you it. This is not always easy; but the liberty is at this price. The difference as compared to what you think, it is - to - tell, by report to commandments, comes from what for us, the man is, and it has to be constantly an actor live - to - gods as well as screws - to - screws of men; but it is an actor that is free; fundamentally free. The man is first liberty; and it is the conscience that it possesses for this liberty that has to carry it to the action to confer it all its dignity. For the subject that we occupied there is an instant, knows that you will meet a lot variants in the manner to establish the figure; but you in will not find in the meaning of the corresponding way neither in the teaching that it wears. I tell well none; and the old man had told you it equally. It invite therefore that you are vigilant. The soothsayer will express by proclaiming: Fa tells...Once the precept stated, it remains to the consultant to apply it on its problem; but nothing obliges it there. Nothing of other has to be demanded it; but as tells the old man, a lot herbs have pushed. ". .................... |
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