Personal Creed

I believe in the Spirit, that great Light that has existed before the Soul and the Animal, that was at One with Divinity before being enclosed in the Flesh. I believe in the Soul, the expression of thought, emotion and personality that unites the Animal to the Spirit. I believe in the Animal that breathes, produces heartbeats and is the house of imagination and flights of fancy. I believe that the circular, whereever it be found, is of Divinity. The wave rises from the ocean, crests and falls, returning to the ocean, the same in it's circularity as the motion of the Sun, the Moon, the Stars in their broad orbits, the Earth through it's angular path. I believe upon pain of Death, the constituent parts return to their One, the Animal to Nature, the Soul to Humanity, the Spirit to Divinity. I believe Certitude leads to Violence, where another is allowed his path to Divinity that may contradict mine, and that his view is deemed just as valid as my own, if his intentions be honest and true. I believe that Nature is the shadow of Heaven, and Art is the shadow of Nature, where the Divine is found to be One, and emanating, becomes several, and returns again to the One. I believe in the Dignity of Man, where all have all of these constituent elements I have listed, though some may be sleeping or unaware of their own makeup. I believe though God be One, He emanates into various, where we were created in 'Their' Image, as Genesis states. I believe in the the Feminine Aspect of God, Being the Shekhina, the Spirit of God. Regardless of shaky evidence, I believe in evolution at least of the Soul, and that Man is evolving even now into a new Creature. I believe that firstmost, God's Grace abounds, and upon penalty at Death rather than burn in hell, we would be allowed to return to make ammends and set things right, so that God's Grace may abound even more. I believe in order to understand the outward, one must first truly look inward, and will find that the individual mirrors the Cosmos, and the Cosmos, the individual. Just as the Heart sends out it's rays to all the planets (arms, legs, appendages), so does the Sun send out all it's rays to the planets. I believe in the Cosmos as it's name is defined, where it is rational, ordered and wholly regulated by a Divine Intelligence. I believe suffering is necessary in order to learn and to grow, and can be caused by events that happened centuries ago and is impersonal and morally neutral, visiting both the Good and the Bad. I don't believe evil is eternal, and thus being jealous, visits us in the realm of the temporal, where it is allowed it's season to operate in our lives. I believe the Spirit, the innermost Person, is absolutely hermetically and spiritually sealed and is immortal as well as incorruptible, and that therefore the best part of ourselves can never truly be harmed. I believe God is wholly immanent, found in Nature throughout, and that if you pluck an ear of corn, you have held an aspect of the Divine. I believe God is transcendent, where He is ineffable, and can only be represented symbolically, and that these symbols in turn are bourne with us when we are bourne. I believe that though all men are depraved, and that the natural motion of the Soul is downward (as we've fallen), I believe through knowledge and spiritual practice, man can reclaim his rightful position in the Cosmos, and be wholly and fully redeemed through the blood of Jesus Christ.