Goddess and God

Goddess and God

I believe that behind all we can sense there is Spirit. This Spirit is like a huge diamond, too vast for us to comprehend, too beautiful, too intense to take in all at once. I believe that the Goddesses and Gods of our ancestors are like many facets of this diamond, all reflecting aspects and characteristics of this One Spirit.

I believe, as our pagan ancestors did, in the Goddess and God. In other words, Spirit is both female and male, not so much as a sliding scale but as in polarity. We, as people, contain aspects of both because “as above, so below.” So we can connect with Spirit, through ourselves and through our own experience of the Goddess and God.

The Lord and Lady are knowable and they are our First Parents. The Goddess, giver and sustainer of life, First Mother of all. She is the Creatrix, Sustainer and Destroyer of all life. The God is the wild running spirit that is the very essence of life itself. He is the Lord of Wildwood.

So will I build my altar in the fields,
And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be,
And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields
Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
I keep it, staying at Home
With a Bobolink for a Chorister
And an Orchard, for a Dome
Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice
I just wear my Wings
And instead of tolling the Bell, for Church,
Our little Sexton sings.
God preaches, a noted Clergyman
And the sermon is never long,
So instead of getting to Heaven, at last
I'm going, all along. Emily Dickinson