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While acknowledging the transcendent reality of the Absolute, the Most High, the pagan does not seek contact with it, nor attempt to describe its properties and manifestations; instead he directs his mystical feeling toward the concrete agents of that transcendental Will—the gods.
The Vertical Flow, comprising both descending and ascending currents of force, has several symbols; the best known among them is the image of the Chariot of the Most High — the Merkabah (Heb. מֶרְכָּבָה, “chariot”).
Just as air embodied the principle of horizontal mobility, so the Earth Element corresponds to horizontal inertia.
The fertilizing activity that fills and permeates the cosmos corresponds to the Element of Air.
The element of Water corresponds to the passive, feminine principle of fluidity, adaptability, and to the Descending movement of Power.
As we have already said, Fire is considered the Element of an object’s Activity, its ascending force.
It is unsurprising that Fire is also credited with the greatest destructive power, since the Principle of ascent that it denotes is often accompanied by the disembodiment of things, that is — their material destruction.
The primary division of the universe drives further polarization and brings forth the quaternity of the Prima Materia.
We have already mentioned the notion “The Great Stream of Power” many times, treating it as a perceptual given; however, different schools understand “Stream of Power” in different ways.
Everyone is well acquainted with the consuming sensation of intrusive memories. More often than not they are tied to unpleasant events which, instead of fading and being forgotten, return again and again, filling the soul with a slightly sour, bitter taste.
“Cromlechs” usually refer to megalithic stone circles. The stones that make up a cromlech can be elongated in the style of menhirs, or completely shapeless boulders. Sometimes cromlechs have a more complex structure—their constituent stones may be overlapped in pairs or in threes by horizontal slabs on top, like a roof.
“Galdr” or “Galdor” (Galdr, Galdor) in Old Norse originally meant “to cry” or “a cry”, i.e. a “spell” or “magical song”. Later it came to mean magic in general.
However, in its original sense Galdr is precisely verbal magic.
Any life’s Way, however it is presented, consists in the continuous accumulation of experience — awareness — that is, the incorporation of ever-new elements into the picture of the world.
The Tauri — Indo-European first-settlers of Crimea — also revered the Great Goddess. What the Great Goddess was called in the Tauri tongue we do not know; the Greeks called her Parthenos — the Maiden. She was the great goddess of the earth, of the waters, and of all animal and plant life — sovereign of every life and every birth.