Panthea Way

T he Sacred Self  A Homily on Discernment, Counsel, and the Sovereignty of the Soul There is a temptation that enters human life quietly. It often comes clothed in humility.  It speaks with the voice of wisdom.  It presents itself as love, concern, prudence, or surrender. It whispers: They know better than I do.  They have more experience.  Everyone agrees.  They can see what I cannot.  Perhaps I should simply listen. And there is truth in this. We are not solitary beings. We need one another. We need counsel, friendship, family, elders, teachers, companions, and communities willing to love us enough to speak uncomfortable truths. There are times when another person sees the danger toward which we are walking, the wound we refuse to acknowledge, or the pattern we cannot yet recognize. Humility requires that we listen. But humility does not require that we surrender discernment. There is a difference between r...

THE LUMEN OF HERMES Being the Sacred Book of the Swift Messenger, called also Mercury Eleventh Lumen of the Lumina UNITAS PANTHEA RELIGIONES Windsoul Academy Press INVOCATIO A Hymn to Hermes, Cyllenius, Swift Messenger of the Gods Hermes Cyllenius, born at dawn and thieving cattle by noon, Argeiphontes, slayer of the hundred-eyed watcher, quickest hand among the gods, Psychopompos, who walks as easily among the dead as among the living. Hear me, Logios, god of the word rightly spoken, Dolios, the Wily One, who taught the world that cunning is its own kind of strength, Kriophoros, ram-bearer, keeper of the flock at the boundary of the fold. You who strung a lyre from a dead tortoise's shell before you were a day old, you who made a thief of yourself and a poet of yourself in the same morning, you who were forgiven not because the theft was small but because the gift was large. I do not ask you to be only quick. I ask you to be sure-footed: on the road between one country...