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Celtic Folk-Soul book
by Jenn Delyth
A Knock at the Door
By Angi Sullins & Silas Toball
The Unicornis Manuscripts
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Text from front of card:
Return to the roots.
Text inside card:
Blessed Be
Text on back of card:
I Have Turned My Face to the Roots: Why the enduring attraction of the Celtic view? Is it the heroic wonder stories? The magical knotwork? Perhaps it's the longing that sinks deepest; the twilight atmosphere of longing, a deep soul-longing, poignant as grief.
Obliviously or consciously, we are all pilgrims, searching this world over for the Lost Thing - that which the early Desert Fathers called Philokalia, the "Beautiful-Good." In all the Celtic affairs, soul-yearning seems as much of the stuff of life as breathing. In our time it is a more haphazard affair, for we are constantly grasping at the moon. The cure is a kind of open secret, a shifting of the gaze from what is far to what is near, to the simple secret place where the soul gathers its nourishment, a knowing of the roots.
A knowing of the roots. This is a quality of Traditional People - those rooty drumbeaters and dancers and firelight story-tellers who chose to dwell outside the walls of the empire. The Celtic tribes were a Traditional people; we see their reflection in the native peoples of North America. When the Red Path, the Yellow path, the White Path and the Black Path come together, we shall be made whole again.
May it be so.
May we turn to the roots, to the simplicity that abided before earth was divided and we were all One.
Illumination by Michael Green
This art is available as an archival print at mjg@michaelgreenarts.com
© 2007 Michael GreenPlease note: Watermark does not appear on actual card.
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