Post by Senbecc on Jun 5, 2006 9:12:30 GMT -5
Just to get us back on track. John would you mind sharing some of your path? The hard work that goes into being a reconstructionist, etc. How one would start on this path?
To which I replied:
To me following a reconstructionist's path is a life long quest for knowledge and wisdom. It is a calling of the ancestors to reconstruct and restore their ways and views without the corruption that usually was the down fall of great cultures like the Celt's Druids, The Greeks and Romans, and probably the Egyptians as well, to bring back it's purity. To me it is rediscovering paths of enlightenment that are known to work because they have worked in the past. It is reconstructing a past culture which has been lost with the embers of what remains. It is learning of their ways and putting them into practice by Fios, Eolis, and Fochmarc...The three Druidic forms of knowledge, and the three Druids who followed Partholon across the sea, to the land, under the surrounding sky. To me it is a remembrance of knowledges thought to be lost but rediscovered, and reissued by the great wisdom keepers. Because of my ancient ways, I have been given 9 newer, fresher ways of looking upon life and being. The knowledge of the ancestors is given freely to any who endeavor to become learned, though do you think the work needed to accumulate the knowledge is the price we pay? I sometimes see it as the added bonus.
I have become the God who fashions fire for a head.
I am he who calleth the cattle from the house of Tethra,
Who but I knows the secret of the unhewn dolmen's arch?