[Ansteorra] Re: bringing new people, and several others.

[karen moon]

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Hang on!  I must rush to my bookshelf.... (see comment below)

----- Original Message -----
From: Theron Bretz
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 2:25 PM
To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Re: bringing new people, and several others.

> To the rest of you - We believe that whatever you do, bad or good, comes
> back to you three times over.  We also believe that we are to 'harm none'
at
> all times. So we tell our seekers, and remind ourselves to do, say, and
> think good as much as humanly possible.  But Everyone on Earth gets mad
> enough to utter a comment such as the one below once in awhile.

And if I, in persona (regardless of my personal beliefs) told you that you
were going to burn for eternity for espousing such beliefs, it would be
considered proselytization.  Yet it's perfectly alright for you and yours to
explain the bloody obvious.  You'd think paganism had just been discovered
last Tuesday the way some folks go on about it.

** Mari here -- Actually Luciano, in the Grand Scheme of Things (think Big Bang Theory here folks) it kinda was.  In "The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft" (ISBN 0-19-285449-6), eminent historian and researcher Ronald Hutton does some remarkable historical sleuthing and pretty much manages to document Modern Witchcraft i.e. Wicca to Gerald Gardner in 1950s England.
The Rule of Three however, is based on a much older premise common in Eastern religions, and commonly known as Karma.  The premise is also known in Christianity, and probably a good many other religions, under the saying "As ye sow, so shall ye reap" -- which really isn't so much a religious principle as it is simple common sense.  "Live by the sword, die by the sword" and "sins coming home to roost" are also considered to express this view.
Of course, none of this may be relevant to this current thread, but the book cited above is just really cool, and should be on the bookshelf of every historian, researcher, pagan and/or independent scholar.  Hutton should teach classes in Critical Thinking.

Now back to your regularly scheduled diatribe. ;-)  ****

Let it go, folks. It's outside of the boundaries of the Society, the
Kingdom, and polite conversation.

Luciano

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