Flow With the River
Sep. 27th, 2011 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
For like the tree and the fish, we as human beings have no control over the movement of grace.
A question that keeps cropping up from time to time is that of predestination or free will, and also from time to time I swing between the two poles - sometimes believing completely in free will and at others the notion of predestination.
As a Wiccan, I believe in a Universal Consciousness, present in all of us, embodied in aspects of Elemental Powers, as well as in God and Goddess. That doesn't necessarily mean that I believe that there is actually a physical being that is God, and another that is Goddess, etc, rather there are Universal Male and Female principles that are symbolised in God and Goddess in order to facilitate understanding, a way for the human mind to access these overarching principles and energy.
I believe that each soul has a series of lessons to learn, or experiences to gather hat will bring the energy of that soul closer to the resonance of the Universal Consciousness, but not that these things can only be learned in a specific, predetermined way... so while a soul might have a 'destiny' if you will, the means and manner in which these destinies are reached is a matter of free will – of the interaction of the individual souls with the experiences that the Universe puts in their way. So I suppose that my view of the universe is like a branching tree, with infinite possibilities, but that 'grace' or the progression of the soul toward Universal Consciousness is present in all possible paths.
I believe that each soul can and will form lasting relationships with other souls that span beyond the ending of a single lifetime, and as I believe in reincarnation, these bonded souls sometimes come together in a succession of lifetimes, not necessarily consecutive, to continue their linked journeys together... but the when and where of it are not of our choosing. Perhaps there is some kind of design behind the when or the where, or perhaps it is completely random, but that we come together time and again on our journeys toward each other and toward grace.
Though the wind enlivens the tree,
The tree is not the wind.
And though life enlivens us,
We are not the source.
For like the tree and the fish, we as human beings have no control over the movement of grace.
A question that keeps cropping up from time to time is that of predestination or free will, and also from time to time I swing between the two poles - sometimes believing completely in free will and at others the notion of predestination.
As a Wiccan, I believe in a Universal Consciousness, present in all of us, embodied in aspects of Elemental Powers, as well as in God and Goddess. That doesn't necessarily mean that I believe that there is actually a physical being that is God, and another that is Goddess, etc, rather there are Universal Male and Female principles that are symbolised in God and Goddess in order to facilitate understanding, a way for the human mind to access these overarching principles and energy.
I believe that each soul has a series of lessons to learn, or experiences to gather hat will bring the energy of that soul closer to the resonance of the Universal Consciousness, but not that these things can only be learned in a specific, predetermined way... so while a soul might have a 'destiny' if you will, the means and manner in which these destinies are reached is a matter of free will – of the interaction of the individual souls with the experiences that the Universe puts in their way. So I suppose that my view of the universe is like a branching tree, with infinite possibilities, but that 'grace' or the progression of the soul toward Universal Consciousness is present in all possible paths.
I believe that each soul can and will form lasting relationships with other souls that span beyond the ending of a single lifetime, and as I believe in reincarnation, these bonded souls sometimes come together in a succession of lifetimes, not necessarily consecutive, to continue their linked journeys together... but the when and where of it are not of our choosing. Perhaps there is some kind of design behind the when or the where, or perhaps it is completely random, but that we come together time and again on our journeys toward each other and toward grace.
