Like many important documents, there are different versions available depending upon where you look. The only real difference is a little bit in the wording. This is the most common version that I found.Like many important documents, there are different versions available depending upon where you look. The only real difference is a little bit in the wording. This is the most common version that I found.
Listen to the words of the Great Father, and Consort of the Lady, Who of old was called Osiris, Adonos, Zeus, Thor, Pan, Cernunnos, Herne, Lugh, and by many other names:
Whenever you have need of anything, and especially
at the skymarks of the year,
come speak to Me with your hearts, minds, and souls,
and I will help you get through.
Assemble together and find strength in your community,
and know that whenever your minds are set upon Me,
there I dwell and will come among you.
I bid you to free yourselves from the chains of self-enslavement,
to know the powers of your Shadow Selves
and to throw off that which holds you back.
As a sign of your freedom, you shall not give a home
to guilt, or oppression within yourself or others;
and you shall drum, chant, eat, make merry and love all in My praise.
For Mine is the ecstasy of body and soul, this life and beyond;
for my law is Love unto all beings.
Know your truest self, and strive ever to express it fully;
let nothing stop you or turn you aside,
For Mine is the secret door which opens upon
the mindscape of the Inner Wisdom,
and Mine is the Bread of Life, and the Staff of the Spiritual Warrior
, which is the Rod of Strength upon the Path.
I am the benevolent God, who love His children and bids them
enter into the festive celebrations of the Turning of the Wheel.
On Earth, I teach of the waxing and waning of the Cycles
and the fulfillment of service to all people; and beyond Death
I embrace you and carry you to your reunion with the Mother.
Knowledge of the Inner and Outer Paths have I to offer you,
as Consort of the Great Lady who is my Mother, Wife, and Sister.
All I ask in return is that you love yourself as you love your neighbors.
For I dwell within you, We are One, and We are Divine.
A loving heart and a giving hand are the sign of those who love Me,
and in them I instill the grace to know
that the duality of Self and Other,
of Divine and Mundane
is but Illusion.
Here the words if the Dancing God, the music of whose laughter stirs the winds, whose voice calls the seasons:
I am the greening of the Earth, and the seed which falls
with the browning of the leaves,
and the Mystery of the Fire,
and the Desire that draws all together.
Call unto your mind, !Awaken! Come unto Me!"
For I am the Truth of Nature, which gives meaning to the Universe.
By Me all things are brought to life and death,
and through Me all things return;
and before My face, the one true face of all Gods and Goddesses,
and of all people of the Earth and beyond,
let your Divinity shine forth and become one
with the ecstasy of the infinite.
Let My worship be within the heart which knows itself; for behold,
all searching and all knowledge are My gifts.
And therefore, let you learn from your heart more oft than books,
from your love more than your hatred,
from your growth more than your setbacks
and may you find the Sacred Wisdom everywhere you look.
You who are Seekers, hearken to these words:
All paths lead inward,
all ways lead to the Center.
All knowledge that is Wisdom comes from within,
making the heart sing, the body rejoice, and the spirit soar.
For behold, I have been with you from the beginning.
We are the Alpha and the Omega,
that from which the journey begins,
is found on the journey,
and lives on at the journey's end.
So Mote It Be!
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