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“Really it is not very grown up to love our Lady. It is not very mature to see a world of beauty and depth and wonder in place of the drab grey ‘reality’ of the materialistic grown-ups. They know, you see, that the physical world is all that there is. They have not a scrap of evidence and never could have, but they believe it with all the fanatical fervour of the Spanish Inquisition (in Russia they even use the same methods). Their attitude to life is like that of some miserly orphanage-keeper in Dickens. Well then, we are just children, but we are going back to our Mother at last, because we have stayed in their orphanage too long.”

— A Sermon Against Grown-Ups, Sister Angelina, EL 2/Opera Omnia I, p. 1

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The Red Ladder of Penance and the White Ladder of Mary

“Once, in a dream, Friar Leo beheld a vision of the making ready of the Divine judgment. He beheld the Angels making music with trumpets and divers instruments, and calling together a marvellous great crowd in a meadow. And on one side of the meadow was set a ladder all rosy red, which reached from earth even unto heaven, and on the other side of the meadow was set another ladder all white, which descended from heaven to earth. On the top of the red ladder, Christ appeared a Lord offended and exceeding wrath. And St. Francis was nigh unto Christ but a few steps lower down; and he came farther down the ladder, and with a loud voice and great fervour called and said: “Come ye, my friars, come confidently, fear not, come, draw nigh unto the Lord, for He calleth you”. At the voice of St. Francis and at his bidding, the friars went and climbed up the red ladder with great confidence. And, when they were all thereon, some fell off the third step, and some off the fourth step, others off the fifth and the sixth; and at the last all fell, so that there remained not one upon the ladder. And so great ruin of his friars, St. Francis, as a pitiful father, was moved to compassion, and besought the Judge for his sons, that He would receive them to His mercy. And Christ showed His wounds all bloody, and said unto St. Francis: “This have thy friars done unto Me”. And St. Francis delayed not, but, even as he interceded, came down certain steps, and cried unto the friars that were fallen from the red ladder and said: “Come ye, rise up, my sons and friars, be of good courage and despair not, but run to the white ladder and climb up it, for by it ye shall be received into the Kingdom of Heaven; run, friars, through paternal admonishment, to the white ladder”. And on the top of the ladder appeared the glorious Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, all pitiful and kind, and welcomed those friars; and without any difficulty they entered into the eternal kingdom.”

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hey i made a vikhelic sign emoji feel free to SLAP it in your discord servers B) or use it wherever

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I love thee, most lovable Lady,

By my love for thee I promise ever to serve you,

And to spread thy love to others.

I put all my hopes, fears, and salvation in thee.

Receive me as thy hand-maiden,

And cover me with your mantle.

Blessed art thou, most lovable Lady.

Amen.

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being a vikhelic devotee is like. my rage is khearful and evil. my rage is righteous and sanctified. Déa would approve of this. Déa is disappointed in me. i have the right to step back. i owe my everything to people. i must be a beacon of love. i must be a beacon of light. i must be a welcome mat. i must be a warning sign. Déa will avenge me. Déa is far beyond my petty existence. i am a doomed monster. i am a hera in the making. i want to punish them. i want them to see the light. i am useless to Her. She is fighting for me. i’m behind Her shield-wall. i’m right there on the front lines. i’m so tired. i can’t give up.

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In Christianity, a distinction is sometimes made between a "first death" and a "second death". The first is our ordinary, bodily death, which we all experience. The second is the "spiritual death" that awaits the condemned. The trick, in Christianity, is to avoid the latter.

One thing I find really beautiful about Filianism is that we don't teach a "second death". (We do, obviously, acknowledge the first.) In the end, all things are saved, even unto the last blade of grass. There are many worlds into which we may pass after our physical death(s), and not all of these are altogether pleasant. Some worlds are "relative hells" just as others are "relative heavens". As one Aristasian writer put it, our present world would appear as a kind of hell to someone from a world higher up the *axis mundi* and a kind of heaven to someone from a world farther down. All have their (quite literally) "redeeming" qualities. There is the dreaded "confusion of bodiless echoes" mentioned in Scripture (Tablet 27), but even this is a temporary condition and, in the end, all of these possibilities are a kind of *life* that continues to have reunion with our Mother as its Providentially ordained end, no matter how many cycles are required to reach it.

Because I'm a teacher, I sometimes imagine myself as a student bent over my books late into the night. My Mother creaks open the door. "It's late," She says. "Time to be done."

"I'm sorry, Mom," I answer, turning to where that sliver of light through the doorway behind Her curiously illuminates Her and puts Her face into darkened relief at the same time. "It's just... I really want to get this right. I keep coming so close to figuring it out, and I just want to make You proud." I'm hoping She doesn't see the tears welling in my eyes, which would only prove how tired I am. A reasonable person, perhaps, would have laid down a long time ago.

She looks at me wryly, because we have had this conversation many times already this evening, but once again the same indulgent smile curls her lips. "Okay, sweetheart. Just a little longer. I'll rekindle the light of ten thousand suns for you and bake you a new tray of planets, but then you need to wrap things up and close the books. It will be a big day tomorrow."

I nod eagerly. "I know. I'll be ready!"

Her face pulls back from the door jam, and I look to the bit of Her wrist gently pulling the knob shut behind Her. "Thanks, Mom." I add. "You're the best."

people who aren't terrified of the mere concept of death... are you okay

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I really like this reflection. It reminds me, actually, of a Qur’anic teaching: “O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another.” (49:13) This verse is often interpreted to mean that our diversity--of gender, race, language, culture, and (in the works of some Muslim scholars, at least) even religion--is intentional and for our edification. I would like to offer a thought on the Catechism’s statement that the “first moral action” (answer 45) of the soul in turning away from Dea was the “primal act of evil” (answer 46). I have heard a few people recently comment on being troubled by this wording, which I can quite understand, but I think in many cases their concerns may be based on a slight misreading. What I say below, then, isn’t to contradict the OP, but rather to affirm the OP and hopefully put her mind (and that of anyone else perturbed by the phrasing) a little more at ease. Madrian texts often use words in very technical senses that are now archaic in colloquial English. The original notes to the hymn “She Hath Riven”, for example, inform the reader that the word “vicious” in that text is used in its original sense as meaning “prone to vice” and not its modern, colloquial sense as “cruelly violent” (EL vol. 1, p. 254). In its original usage, “evil” was a very general-purpose term more akin to our “bad”; Anglo-Saxons used it often where we might use “unlucky”, “unskillful”, or “defective”. As a noun, it often meant simply “misfortune”. Only in Middle English did the word begin to zero in specifically on the sense of being malicious or depraved, and even then it remained common for a long time to hear set expressions such as “natural evils” (our modern “natural disasters”). Taking some of the Chapel’s statements and earlier parts of the Catechism into consideration, my feeling is that the original, more “neutral” sense of “evil” is the one intended. The Chapel provides some important clarifications on the idea of our turning from Dea. In its article on “Original Sin and the Snake in Filianism”, it tells us that: “The doctrine . . . that humans . . . are guilty of sin even before they have done anything in this life . . . is not present in Filianism. . . . The act of the First Daughter of Creation (the first human maid) is not seen as ‘sin’ . . . It was not an act of disobedience (as the sin of Adam was). She did not do anything that God the Mother had forbidden. . . . the First Daughter's action is something very different and much more complex than ‘original sin’. . . . Manifestation means developing outward from the Divine. It means the existence of ‘things’ as well as God Herself. If things were not separate from God they would remain inherent within Her and there would be no outwardly-manifest cosmos. This is not original sin, but simply the nature of manifest being. Yet, insofar as things are outwardly manifested, they must have a degree of imperfection, since total perfection exists only in Dea and can be restored only by the complete return (or ‘inbreathing’) of manifestation to Dea. Thus the ‘fall’ or transition-to-imperfection of maid and of the cosmos is . . . a fundamental aspect of the process of manifestation itself. . . the First Daughter of Creation was fulfilling the conditions necessary to manifestation in turning from the Mother. . . . To call this ‘original sin’ would clearly be placing a grossly negative moralistic interpretation on something that is in fact far subtler.” That same article makes a very important comparison as well:  “For Filianic thealogy . . . what Christians regard as the ‘fall’ (and the term really is not appropriate to Filianism) is not the source of ‘original sin’, but the source of cosmic existence itself. In Hindu terminology it can be seen as the source of avidya or the illusion of worldly existence. These two statements are really the ‘objective’ and ‘subjective’ sides of the same coin. It is important also to realize that while some Hindu sources regard the illusion of being - nescience or avidya - as purely negative, the religion of Our Mother God, both Indian and Filianic, see it as part of Her creative activity. Both vidya and avidya, nescience and knowledge, are powers of Dea:” The article on “Christianity, Original Sin, and the Love of Our Mother God” takes this point still further: “What we need to understand is that every legitimate religion accepts that there is a fundamental flaw in the human condition. If there were not, we should not require ‘religion’ since we should already be in a state of Perfect Union . . . In Christianity, original sin is the name of this concept, in Buddhism it is dukkha or ‘suffering’ seen as an essential condition (not an accident) of samsaric existence. The Western concept . . . tends to stress the ‘moral’ or volentive aspect, while the Eastern concept (including that of the ancient Greeks) tends to stress the sapiential. In other words, the West tends to regard the human flaw as essentially ‘sin’ while the East tends to regard it as essentially ‘folly’ or ‘ignorance’. It should be understood that this is a question of perspective rather than of doctrine . . . It will be readily seen that the volentive, or ‘sin’ perspective corresponds to the Path of Love, focusing on an act of willful and disobedient separation from our Beloved Mother, while the sapiential or ‘ignorance’ perspective corresponds to the Path of Light, seeing the Human Flaw as essentially the loss of our integral Knowledge of the Divine. Each is the expression of the same Truth relative to a particular path, and in practice all religions incorporate both perspectives . . . In Filianic doctrine . . . The perspectives of Buddhism and Christianity – original sin and dukkha respectively – are both recognized by Flianists in the term khear . . . For the Filianist, the Love Perspective normally takes precedence over the Light Perspective because it is in the Love of the Daughter that we find our salvation. . .” With all this in mind, let us consider some of the earlier responses in the Catechism. Answer 32 tells us that a “moral decision is a decision between good and evil”, but answer 35 defines “relative evil” simply as “a state of moving further from Dea”. (Answer 36 defines “absolute evil” as “the complete absence of Dea”, which answer 37 indicates is impossible.) Answer 41 clarifies that “moving further from Dea” entails “becom[ing] more unlike my true self and more out of harmony with Her”. Thus, in saying (in questions 45 and 46) that the “first moral act” of the soul at the Turning was the “primal act of evil”, the Catechism appears, effectively, to be saying simply that the Turning was the first voluntary movement away from Dea. Both because of the generally Western vocabulary of Madrian writers and because of Filianism’s specific orientation toward the path of love, this idea is expressed in “moral” terms but, with the original sense of “evil” in mind, we can perceive how the phrase “primal act of evil” is wholly cognate to such alternatives as “original state of ignorance” or “first occasion of self-forgetting” (in Islamic tradition, Adam and Eve simply forgot the commandment not to eat the fruit, and this forgetfulness is understood as the fundamental flaw that Islam addresses through its call to remembrance of God). I do not mean to suggest that it is wrong for anyone to be uncomfortable with the Catechism’s phrasing. For many people who have had negative experiences with Christianity, the terms used are off-putting and perhaps obscure more than they reveal. My hope is simply to offer some reassurance that they are not (I believe) intended to communicate in a Filianic context what they might in some Christian ones. The Turning (whether addressed in relation to the First Daughter or our own souls) was not, in Orthodox Filianic teaching, an act of wickedness or depravity. Indeed, it was a part of the outworking of thamë. The Chapel assures us that, although we cannot, from within manifestation, know the reasons that God chose to make Creation manifest, “what we can understand is that Dea initiated manifestation out of Love.” (source) We moved away from Dea--which is all the Catechism means by “evil”--but only to become, as the Chapel has it, “a part of the process of manifestation both in its negative and its positive aspects.” The negative aspects are, presumably, those which the original sense of “evil” captures as a kind of misfortune or unskillfulness (one is reminded of the Buddhist distinction between “skillful” and “unskillful means”). As the Chapel says: “[The First Daughter] helped to bring about a world that was beautiful, but not perfect (i.e., not unmanifest) and therefore ‘not as beautiful as it had formerly been’. However, for the first ‘time’, that beauty was able to shine outwardly. The rhythms of the universe, the cycles of being, the harmony of the spheres, all stem from this act. They are Divine, but before this time they only existed within the Divine in potentia. Unlike the Christian story, this is not a moral fable about original sin. It is a depiction of the development of manifestation in both its beautiful and its imperfect nature. Its meaning is inherently metaphysical. The reaction of God the Mother to this act was not in any sense one of anger or even mild disapproval. She simply states what has happened and explains her arrangements for making life possible to her child. She initiates the harmony of the universe . . . Participating in that harmony is the path of the Filianist believer.”

As I’m sure many people have, I’ve spent a lot of the last year and a half growing increasingly cynical about just about everything. Part of the trouble I’ve had seeking God lies in what I see when I look around me; it seems like every day there’s some new horror or corruption being unearthed. I found myself asking what kind of benevolent God could possibly exist, and allow the world to exist in such a state.

In my former Christian religious training, I would have answered these questions with some form of self-blaming, asking myself how I could dare to question God when clearly the fact that the world wasn’t perfect must mean I wasn’t doing enough. While I recognize now that it’s important to take responsibility for areas of life and culture where I do have influence, I have actual control over very little. Learning more about Control (what I absolutely do have power over), versus Influence (where I have some part of and responsibility for a situation, but not absolute control), versus Concern (where I have care for a situation, but no real, significant impact on the outcome), has helped me realize how little is really up to me; this has been equal parts frustrating and a relief.

I think it helps me to think of God this way, too. God has control over what She creates, how and when She creates it. However, once a thing or being is created and has its own soul and will, I think it’s more accurate to think of Her relationship to her creation as influential rather than controlling. Meaning, Dea may see one of Her children struggling with financial issues, for example, and She may influence the events in Her child’s life so that they come into a little extra money. But She wouldn’t simply change their entire life circumstance. I’m sure She could, but she wouldn’t. Because when our souls turned from Her it was for want of knowledge and experience, and we can’t gain that if She controls absolutely everything. And this is why I have trouble with the idea of the first turning from Dea as the primordial act of evil, and why I stayed away from Filianism for a long time.

I grew up in a faith system where knowledge and information were very tightly controlled. So-called “evil” forms of knowledge were only acceptable to learn about for the purpose of defeating them. The most anyone was granted was a tacit appreciation of other cultures as an interesting novelty, but only with a smug understanding that we were the ones who truly had it “right”. But the God that I know, who I’ve always known, is the One that makes my heart skip a little faster when I find something new and interesting to learn. The One that has brought so many wonderful people of just as many cultures and beliefs and backgrounds into my life, so that we all may learn from each other. And if that wasn’t the whole point, why would She do that?

She never wanted all of us to be the same. Because I don’t think you can truly learn much of anything in an echo chamber of sameness, least of all how to love someone who’s different from you.

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please never purposefully deprive yourself of prayer because you feel like you are "unworthy." our Mother longs to hear from us during our highest highs and our lowest lows. you are never too much for Her, you are never something She hasn't seen before or that She can't handle. give everything to Her and She will do what She will do, and blessed is Her name.

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“The Mother cannot resist your love, because no mother can resist the love of her child. Love is the straight way, the direct way, the perfect way to Dea. So, perhaps you will say: “I do not know if I love Dea. I do not even know Her.” Oh, yes, you know Her. She is your Mother. She made you. She is the deepest thing that you know. When all else is blown aside by the winds of time and impermanence, She is the thing that remains. Ask the Mother to come to you as a perfect love for Her. For it is by Her Power that you will love Her. It is Her Love with which you will love Her, for She is the source of all love. Just ask Her, and She will come, for a mother never refuses her child’s cry. You may feel Her or you may not. Something very instant and obvious may happen, or it may take a long time – even years. But if you have asked Her, She has come. She has come now. How She comes, She will decide, and Her decision will be right.”

— The Sucrishi Way

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Sometimes I worry that I may be obsessed with God, or that I am over-occupied with religious thought. When I’m not working, planning or engaging with a friend/pet, I’m usually thinking about God. But then I remember the Appendix quote,

“When a devotee  repeats the Name constantly, in  every   spare moment when the mind is not otherwise occupied, the repetition  becomes automatic.  It continues in waking  and  in   sleeping. Even when she is thinking of something else, the   chant continues on as a background. Such a devotee comes   truly to live with Inanna, to know Her as a personal friend and companion.”

And then I feel truly understood. It’s good for us to think about God whenever we can! The habit of constantly thinking of Her has helped me spend less time creating scary thoughts, less time dwelling on (unhealthy types of) angry thoughts. Her name alone is healing to the mind. We should never be ashamed of how much we love God.

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The tags on the original post just won the Internet for today.

at first i was kinda embarrassed that people found that 3am sleep-deprived angrypost that i posted without thinking but i’m glad people vibed with it

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I know this is ultimately because of my own brain and life experiences but having a relationship with God as Mother is so infinitely different than a relationship with Her as “Lord” or “Father”, it just never ceases to amaze me. in this way, I realize Ive always known Her rather intimately. I dont feel like I have to perform a certain way to earn Her love. Im not scared of Her. even in Her most terrifying forms, I can do nothing but surrender to Her and worship Her; love Her as my ferocious, infinitely powerful Mother who I might not always understand, but what I do understand is how immeasurable Her love for me is. even when She takes things away from me… I just fall harder. I know Shes only removing that which I dont need, or what hinders me.

I dont believe were supposed to fear God at all. I believe Her greatest wish is to remove fear from our hearts entirely, and show us that we are always complete. we dont need anything that we dont already have, and that which we need cannot be taken from us.

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personal ramblings about god’s patience

One of my favorite things to meditate on is that all of us are saved by our Mother. No exceptions! In other religions, there is such a pressure to accept everything as truth right away, because your very soul depends on it. You could die at any minute, and without having accepted the truth, the immortal soul could face unspeakable terror for eternity. When exploring other religions, I became consumed by a fear of hell, and the fear of running out of time without having ever found peace with a “true religion”. It is scary to not feel saved, to feel abandoned and hopeless. Not only is life on Earth tiresome for gentle souls, but then I am told that Hell awaits too if I don’t figure things out immediately?

Dea, however, has already saved us. We can choose to get closer to Her by being devoted the best we can as individuals, or we can choose live on without. This does not anger Her. She is understanding, and She is patient. We have uncountable future lives to find our way back to Her, and the gates of Hell have been crushed by Her Loving Hands. Anna led all of the lost souls out of Hell, Marya smashed down the gates, and nobody can ever be truly lost again.

I feel empowered to take as much time as I need to read the scriptures, to meditate on Her love, and to take time to connect with what God means to me. I am saved by Anna, and there is no need to despair. No matter how far I may fall behind in my spiritual development in this life, there are always, always more chances. Dea sees everything! She smiles upon the smallest efforts we make, and She won’t forget these small things that we do to know Her better.

Reading scripture does not feel like a race against time anymore. There is no shame in taking breaks, no shame in feeling spiritually weak, and no shame in just taking your damn time. It’s okay to question parts of what you have read, too! Dea gave us intelligence, and she wants us to use it for good, so we think critically about what we study. What can be better than using the gift of intelligence to better understand Her?

There is no rush, there is no time limit or fear of hell. You can approach Her as fast or as slow as you wish, with infinite chances to do so. There is not a hell for any of us who need more time, there is only a patient, loving mother who wants nothing more than to embrace Her homesick and tired daughters.

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I'm not sure how I feel about trying to formalize a classification like this. We are a young faith and a small one (and not at all search-engine-optimized), and so I hesitate to create senses of distinction and opposition or to split meaning across too many terms.

I worry, for instance, that a chart like this suggests that Madrianism is, in some way, *other than* Filianism, instead of the same religion under another name. I also don't know that it's accurate to say that the original Madrians practiced "without much focus on the Janyati" when they wrote hundreds of pages on Janyatology and Sr Angelina actively urged adherents to engage more fully in Janyatic devotions (EL vol. 2, p. 22).

In that same vein, the Chapel seems to imply that those who primarily worship through a particular Janya do so by taking that Janya as their primary depiction of Dea generally. For example:

"The statement of a Devotee of Sai Sushuri (rare in Telluria, but not unknown in the Motherlands) that Sai Sushuri is the One Dea would not be considered heretical or even eccentric. Since each Janya is, in her highest essence, a 'prolongation' of Dea Herself, Dea can be worshipped not just through but as any of Her Great Janyati." (source)

In that respect, the difference between a Déanist/Filianist and a "Janyatist" is more iconographic than theological. That same page speaks to the position of the hypothetical "pure Déanist" vis-à-vis the Filianist, too, noting that:

"... there are those ('pure Déanists') who cannot accept the Daughter as a separate Person, largely because She is not part of a living Tellurian tradition (actually that is debatable, but such is their position) who will nonetheless agree that the Saving Function of the Daughter (the 'Daughter Aspect' ) is part of the Mother and is clearly enunciated in Telluria in such wholly orthodox figures as Kuan Yin.

"Such Pure Déanists usually have no difficulty in attending Filianic ceremonies on this basis, seeing the Daughter Mythos as a metaphor rather than a Revelation. Indeed many of us take a position somewhere between the two extremes, without feeling the need to define that position in precise rational terms. We do not, after all, forget that in matters of the Spirit, reason itself can never leave the plane of metaphor. Only Pure Intellect can be precise, and the precision of Pure Intellect cannot, by its very nature, be formulated in words. The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao."

There does appear to be a meaningful difference here, though perhaps less about venerating the Mother vs. the Daughter and more about understanding the relationship of Filianism to the history of Tellurian religion. This leads to some meaningful differences in understanding the exact nature of Scripture and of interpreting liturgy (seeing the rites and the calendar as perhaps more metaphorical than directly sacramental, for instance), and these should not be neglected. Nonetheless, there appears to be little in the way of practical difference. Both read and follow the same Scriptures, observe the same rites, mark the same holidays, etc. The "Daughter Aspect" exists and is venerated in both.

The fourfold division proposed does, in speaking of "blends", acknowledge that those four positions are points on a spectrum, but it still strikes me that even calling them "positions" or "forms" makes them out to be more distinct than they really are.

Thus my concern is that, first, such a classification seems to distance us from our foremothers unnecessarily, by setting up "Madrianism" as something identifiable apart from "Filianism" and "Déanism" (while misrepresenting the role of the Janyati in Madrian practice), and, second, that, being as we are few and already hard to find, drawing up such charts encourages people to self-identify with a range of terms that, to a large extent, amount to distinctions without real difference, and that this, in turn, makes us harder to find and, inevitably, fewer as a result.

“Serene Mother concluded that Deanism takes on four forms (and blends of each):   

Deanism: Worship of the Celestial Mother, only.  

Filianism: the Worship of the Divine Feminine Trinity, study of the Janyati and with focus on the Holy Daughter as Our Saviouress.  

Madrianism: The original form of our Faith focusing on the Holy Trinity and the Salvation of the Holy Daughter but without much focus on the Geniae (Janyati)

Janyatism: Where a Janya is the Face/Image of Our Divine Mother or where three of the Janyati are the Images/Faces of the Trinity. And, of course, there are blendings of the above.”

- Recent HFT Email Correspondence

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“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.”

— C.S. Lewis (via ofinfiniteenergies)

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I forgot how much I love libraries. I had some on reserve and went to get them yesterday and then went to casually look at some others, not thinking I was actually going to take one out, but I randomly selected one because the title called to me and then I read the blurb and I instantly knew I had to read it and I'm 40 or so pages in and it is SO gripping. I've missed this. Libraries are treasure troves.

#not explicitly Filianism-related #just giving away the fact that I'm a librarian

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Trust In Me, My Daughter, That I Am Your Mother.

Oh, my Beloved Mother,

Thank you for leading me through all of the storms of my life, both big and small.

Thank you for remaining by my side even when my faith grows weak.

Thank you for always waiting with open arms for me to throw myself into when times are hard,

And thank you for rejoicing alongside me when times are good.

I offer you my life, my death, and everything thereafter.

Love,

Your Adoring Daughter.