1/03/2001

Also, when one names something, one gains control of it. Markale used the example of the Hebrew Lilith myth. In this myth, Lilith became angry for being paired up with Adam, spoke the name of God and then disappeared. Since that point, not only has the name of God been forbidden from being spoken, but some people have not even bothered to seek it out. His theory in application to Druids, is that the Druids know the name of god, they are the keepers of it. But, in that manner, wouldn't that mean that the name of god is knowledge? Or another incarnation of it? Druids were the keepers of knowledge, the wisdom of the Earth. They were also seekers of the deeper meanings that could be derived of it. Going on that, in the Bible, the first sentence of the book of John is, "In the beginning was the word, and with that word was life." In my studies, the Word was equated with Jesus, and was used to explain how Jesus was there in the beginning. Why? Because, Jesus was the word of God. As the Word, he spoke the knowledge, he was a keeper of the wisdom of God, putting him at Druid status in that definition. Later in his example, Markale points to his belief that the Druids knew the name, as do priests of all religions, but never spoke on the thought that by speaking aloud the name of god, existence would give man power over god. He also talks of the concept that God does not exist, he becomes (p. 210). Now, on a long stretch, I'm going to agree with this, for reasons that I cannot say whether or not God(s), as defined, exist without humans. Yes, I will say that there is a force that creates everything outside of human existence, because this earth and the things that are on it have been here long before humans were. Now, onto the concept that god becomes. God is like, or is, the Mabon that is continually being reborn, growing, and changing. Like the concept of order and disorder, god changes and evolves. And because of this constant change and evolution, god will never fully exist as a complete creation, he is a work in progress. He exists on the spiral continuum (p. 217) with everything else.


To wonder and study what god is, the only true text that one needs is to look out a window and begin to look at his various aspects. Like Emerson espouses, one must transcend the physical to enter into the spiritual. The front of the tapestry, being a creation of art, gives way to the back of the tapestry, which is knotwork and course fibers running in complete disarray. Again, we find the aspects of order and disorder. They are making sense of each other and within each, one can find the patterns that give way to the other.