Many
Pagans prefer to use a gender free word such as 'Spirit', but they do have a
worship of God. For me, I use 'Divine
Friends'. To Wiccans, the God is only
half of the Divine. The other half is
the Goddess. And like the Goddess, the God also
goes through stages: Warrior, Father and Sage.
The Sage represents discretion and
reasoning. The status of the sage was
traditionally achieved in a man's later years and/or when he became a
grandfather. He has gone through a long
passage and he no longer has the ego-based needs of recognition through
performance and success. He is free to
accomplish and contribute for the sake of beauty and inner purpose. He advises and loves all his
children and will retaliate quickly if they are harmed. He oversees the underworld, destiny, death,
resurrection, and justice.
The wisdom
and understanding that is garnered from a lifetime of experience helps him
understand that things always change.
Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. Life is a cycle and what he has changed for
the better will remain, but a short while.
Like the
Crone, his concerns extend beyond the physical world and involve the process of
transformation, assimilation of knowledge, and movement between the various
levels of existence. The sage holds his wisdom
in the gentle way that honors all life.
This is man
at his wisest and calmest. Long gone are
the days of do first think later that were the keystone to Youth, instead the
God has become a thinker, a philosopher, and often a magician. This is the Grandfather of the World, The Old
Man in the Mountain, Owen ap Urien, Horus, Thoth.
The
mythological elder God, known as the Holly King, who battles with the Oak King
is one version of the sage archetype.
Truthfully, the sage could win this battle with his wits if he so
chooses. Nonetheless, he allows himself
to lose so that the Wheel of Life will keep turning.
Buri is the God formed by the cow Audumla licking the ice which collected
within Ginnungagap. He is the father of
Bor, and thus the Grandfather of Odin, Ve and Vili. Buri is the progenitor of all the Race of
Gods. Buri was formed out of the
solidification of primal matter, potential and energy.
Mimir, being a
particularly wise deity, was the counselor of the Gods. He owned a well, the Mimisbrunnr, the water
of which granted wisdom and the power to see into the future. Odin sacrificed
one of his eyes for a drink from the Mimisbrunnr.
·
Holly, mandrake, pine, juniper,
mistletoe, nightshade, nuts, oak, moss, wintergreen, ginseng; also dried or
withered plants
·
The hours from sunset to dawn
·
Autumn into winter
·
The waning moon
I,
the sage, speaks to you from my soul. I
live the truth, which the warrior conquered.
My power is balanced by my wisdom and love. I am the alpha and the omega. Join me.
Together we can know truth!
http://www.mysticmooncoven.org/wicca.htm
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