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TDB Mysteries are meant to be a pathway for contemplation and meditation, as well as the focus of our liturgical Sacrament.
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Introduction:
When we meditate upon a candle, we are using it as a center to focus our spiritual attention. Focusing on one candle does not negate any other sources of illumination. There are other candles and other lights, and yet all are Fire, and all are Light.
In the same way, when we focus on a particular set of ideas for our path, we are not denying or diminishing other ideas. As a Clann, we simply choose to gather around a single fire for the while that we come together. Each of us may bring our own heart-light, our own candle to the common flame, and we, as a Clann, may light our hearth-fire from these individual candles. And more, each of us may also light our own candles from the common flame.
In this way, as is the way of the Cosmos itself, we give, and receive, and share at the same time, and the many flames and one flame are the Song and the Truth and the Kinship in the endless becoming.
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The Mysteries:
THE ART: Since times immemorial, the Ancients believed that the Cosmos comes into being according to the inner living and growing pattern that is the inspiration of creative genius. It is this pattern, and the process that creates it, that we call the Art. From the primordial Chaos of potential, the Art brings forth the majesty of the Cosmos, growing and weaving like the living branches of the World Tree. The Art lives within each thing, as it does in the Cosmos entire. To honor the Art is to honor the Sacred beauty that is the One and the All.
THE TRUTH: The Druids of Old had taught that it is by it’s Truth that each thing grows into fullness. It is Truth that is the seed, the root, and the flowering of virtue, and it is Truth that is the ultimate essence of the Art. It is by Truth that all good things come to be, and it is by Truth that all good things flourish. It is by Truth that honorable power is gained and used - in beauty, in healing, and in magic. To honor Truth is to honor the Sacred meaning and purpose of each life.
THE KINSHIP: The root and the branch of the Tree - by this Truth we are Kin. Blood and bone and spirit, we spring from the same Source as the greatest of stars and smallest of atoms. Nothing exists apart from this Kinship, and the ties of Kinship, in all it's guises, are Holy. All human beings exist as part of a family, a Whole - and it is by how they treat the ties, the relationships, and the mutual obligations inherent in being a part, as well as a whole, that they fulfill their Truth and their Art. To honor Kinship is to honor the Sacred ties, and the giving, and the taking, within the living Cosmos.
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