Law, builds on the foundation of Pride, a point of the Iron Pentacle
Chapter: West: Diving Into Compassion / Water / Cups1 (if you’re not on the west coast, may be a different direction)
[ :The luminous energy of the Pearl Pentacle runs like water, down from love, connecting it with law: [ lostinmist note: what connects law with love to you? ] . ] Law is a distorted concept in our culture. The law of [ :Pearl: ]:{This Lesson], based on true pride[cont’d below lostinmist note]
[ lostinmist note: pride, not arrogance, or as Thorn calls it ‘false pride’, pride is the corresponding point on the Iron Pentacle which each Pearl point builds on. … Various unhappy things are in the ‘rust’ and ‘gilded’ pentacles, which the book goes into not so much depth about on and there’s also a violet pentacle … Thorn is currently working on a book focusing on the pentacles called Stars of Power : (follow on Kickstarter) ]{note} [ :you can make Thorn’s words non-denominational by just changing the stuff enclosed in colons: ]
[continues], is natural law. When pride is present, there is a sense of worthiness and belonging to community and the natural flow. When laws are made in response to unworthiness, they can cause isolation, suspicion, and a divorce from Nature.
That doesn’t mean that natural law always seems nice. Earthquakes topple structures without sound foundations. Fire scythes through a forest like a knife, making space for new seeds to grow. Law is about balance and connection. It is about gravity and the way the stars move. Law is also about my will and my use of it. Am I in alignment with the natural world as much as possible in the twenty-first century? Have I done my daily practice, sat in prayer or meditation, run energy, or engaged in a martial arts practice? Have I sought forgiveness for omissions or things committed when I was not in alignment? I cannot live according to natural law if I have caused an imbalance and not sought to rectify it. Right living engages law: discipline, pride, joy, and revelry.
Thinking of law in this personal way gives us an idea of how law works on a larger scale, ordering all of Nature through the gentle turning of the seasons or through the devastating power of a flash flood. On a human scale, law requires the the engagement of individuals, attempting to bring their lives into alignment with one another and with natural law. The power of law, a structure of magnificent scale, is built upon each individual component. It is like one of the triangles supporting Buckminster Fuller’s dome. Law is both the triangle and the dome.
Ask yourself: What are the laws I choose to live by? Which of these have I internalized? How do they work in me and through me? Do these laws control me or strengthen me? Do I use these laws to control or strengthen others? What oaths do I willingly take? How is my will acting in concert with the world around me?
1 from Evolutionary Witchcraft, by T. Thorn Coyle (2004), pg.[ ]
{note} I have not been a formal student of Thorn’s though I first read this book in 2006 or 2007 and later Make Magic of Your Life (2014) a book for everyone, not of witchcraft, and we had a phone conversation once years ago and she? or they? have seen my commentary on their facebook posts…
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