Strange Creatures and the Forest of Egregore
“Strange Creatures and The Forest of Egregore”
Where do we go -
when our rosebuds
stop still in the cold,
unwanted,
along the unopened road?
we walk into the
forest alone,
there we meet
strange creatures -
some say
they have the heart
of poets, philosophers
artists, musicians
angels and demons
come and they go
dispensing wishes
some eating our souls,
for good show
some strange religion
where Welles speak
to the sparkplug tune
like rivers running,
fast and slow
we are
borne alone
we live alone,
we die alone
some will say
that this is untrue,
that this isn’t so,
but alone,
we made
our choice,
through contract
long long long ago
in this strange place
where time seems to
stand still,
we remember
freedom,
we swallow
then purge
bitter pills
we forget
about wars of the worlds
and colliding pasts
gone unmercifully wrong
we walk out
as strange creatures
standing guard
very still, very strong
the unwaived
unwavering
before those
approaching
our path,
we deflect fear
melting like hail
sticks and stones
slings and arrows
no longer have power
to make of us shipwrecks
our homes, broken towers
we shine
in our armour
courage blooming
from hearts
burning torturous
cans of worms
turning the tables
now canes with able
together
we stand
alone but
never apart
shields and mottos
our honour guards
quills raised now opening
the Egregore Road
for other
strange creatures
to find true north, a compass
reflecting true home
their disbelief lost
caught in anger,
hurt follows grief
closely by sorrow
the road is strung
with sticky webs
we feed the demons
Love like it’s honey
they feed
until they give in
all manna fed, our thoughts
and our feelings
forgiveness, at
the cross road,
for them, tastes odd
is strange medicine
to dream
of freedom
of far better
glorious things
to walk with grace
in their own footsteps
Love assured and not lost,
yet alone, gathering as one
a see of all
the forgotten
Rosebuds
standing guard
opening hearts
in The Egregore Forest
the lost, now very well-lit,
become burning paths
to light the way
HOME
(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
"Losing My Religion"/ R.E.M.
https://youtu.be/OKvCV8MFIaw
"Rosebud is the trade name of a cheap little sled
on which Kane was playing on the day he was taken away
from his home and his mother.
In his subconscious it represented the simplicity,
the comfort, above all the lack of responsibility in his home,
and also it stood for his mother's love, which Kane never lost."
"We're born alone,
we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship
can we create the illusion for the moment
that we're not alone".
(Orson Welles)
Here's my creed, against Benjamin's.
This is what I believe:
'That I am I.'
' That my soul is a dark forest.'
'That my known self
will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.'
'That gods, strange gods, come forth f rom the forest
into the clearing of my known self, and then go back.'
' That I must have the courage to let them come and go.'
' That I will never let mankind put anything over me,
but that I will try always to recognize
and submit to the gods in me
and the gods in other men and women.'
There is my creed. He who runs may read.
He who prefers to crawl, or to go by gasoline, can call it rot.”
(D.H. Lawrence)
egregore.
https://theosophy.wiki/en/Egregore
angels (and demons).
Cain and Abel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain_and_Abel
Jesus Message 2022 - You're Running OUT OF TIME
https://youtu.be/Dp_TgNTZ3-0
video refers to - "The Christ Letters", links below.
n.b. these may be two very different books
"The Christ Letters"
https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/nrWdiGCQ0WoYCJoSY5XZ
https://thechristletters.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/5/7/125746987/christ_letters_links.pdf
What are The Christ Letters?
i.e. "The Christ Letters: An Evolutionary Journey Home" by Ellias and Theanna Lonsdale, Penguin Random House (Publisher)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/219611/the-christ-letters-by-ellias-and-theanna-lonsdale/
38 page excerpt within Penguin Random House website link.
"Thought Forms", A. Besant and C.W. Leadbeater
Publisher/The Theosophical Publishing House Limited
38 Great Ormond St, London, 1901/reprint 1925
https://www.theosophy.world/sites/default/files/ebooks/Thought-Forms.pdf
"Thought Forms"/ wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-Forms_(book)
Forward on "Thought Forms", A. Besant and C.W. Leadbeater
by Theosophy World Resource Centre -
https://www.theosophy.world/resource/ebooks/thought-forms-beasant-and-cw-leadbeater
A Theosophical Magazine, "Lucifer" (later to be renamed The Theosophical Review"), referred to in above link by Theosophy World Resource Centre -
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60852/60852-h/60852-h.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(magazine)
What is "Thought Forms", Sacred Bones Records
https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbb015-thought-forms
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