“There is nothing permanent except change.”

— Heraclitus

Tags: Margot Adler & polytheism & reality & multiple & diverse & harmony & divergence & beliefs & practices

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."

— Lewis Carrol,
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

Tags: maxims & monotheistic world & polytheism & good & Christian & voice of the Divine & ministry

❝Never piss off your friends, sometimes they save you from your own worst impulses.❞

— NeoWayland, Snap out of it!

Tags: wisdom & polytheism & Ελευθέριος

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

— Roald Dahl

Tags: monotheism & Judaism & Akhenaton & Atenism & Egypt & Semitic & polytheism & influence & Christianity & scholarship & culture & trade & immigration & tolerance & other & usury & sin & economic activity & merchant class & royalty & loans & math & writing & religious text & amateur historian & bibliophiles & Pagan

“Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have all depreciated polytheism as intrinsically inferior - primitive, crude, lost. But much of the profundity of Paganism lies in its deep appreciation for the complexity and richness of life, its embrace of the world that surrounds us, that indeed is us.”

— Frank Donnola from “Reconciling One and Many,” Gnosis № 28, Spring 1993

Tags: Gnosis magazine & 1993 & Spring & Frank Donnola & Christianity & Judaism & Islam & polytheism & paganism & world & 1993