A Call To Souls
by Ganglare Odinson Simas, 1519-A-AG
Do you seek purpose? Do you ever think? “I’m missing
something.” Have you sought answers in various mainstream
religions only to have them fail to provide a lasting sense of
balance? The balance that is essential to a healthy and whole
body, mind, and soul.
Please understand that I do not have as a goal, the attack on
anyone’s legitimate claim to their spirituality. Around
the globe there are numerous religious beliefs, mythologies, and
“isms.” It should be noted that so called; “indigenous
peoples” of any given geographical area have in their lore,
customs, and if I may posit, in their very D.N.A.; the deities
to which the understanding of their world is attributed. For centuries,
much of the wisdom old cultures possessed were met with ridicule
and disdain from the supposed modern, enlightened “thinkers
“of the day. Today in the Runic year of 2256 (2006 C.E),
science and those whom apply it to the myriad questions that were
presumed answered by science, we see a reoccurring validation
in the once so-called, “backward thinking locals”
of virtually anywhere on Mother Earth. These same peoples, in
many cases, are now being lauded since “science” has
proven in a lab that which was already known! Once righteous proclamations
of scientific fact, are regularly revisited revised, and out rightly
negated in some instances. Do no just presume me to be correct,
over a three month span peruse for yourself, any of the following
publications; Omni, Discover, Popular Science, etc.
What does this mean to you as an individual whose ancestry reaches
back to the founders of some of the greatest civilizations on
record, whose sense of nobility prompted the formation of a body
of laws which today you know as democracy? Yes! This is a fact.
A similar nobility lies dormant, or nearly so invariably every
ethnic group, or race. Seek the Gods and Goddesses of your ancestry;
re-tune yourself with the natural rhythms of life. Become empowered
and claim responsibility for your spiritual well being. Those
I directly address are the sons and daughters of Germanic, Scandinavian,
Celtic, and Slavic descent, those whose forbears communed with
Allfather Odin, the Beloved Frigga, the lovely sister Freya, brothers
Thor, and Frey. These are our Goddesses, our Gods! These and many
others live within us. Since the advent of Christianity our deities
have been vilified by The Church, yet look at the icons, holy
days, ceremonies, and such. Nearly all aspects of The Church blatantly
display the very Pagan beliefs they usurped, and then mingled
with their dogma so as to convert, more easily, a mass of open
minded, and warm hearted folk. Those that refused to denounce
the Gods of their ancestors were killed in horrific ways. Nowhere
in history will you find record of the followers of what today
is called; Odinism/Ásatrú perpetrating slaughter
on a people so as to impose a religion on them. What we today
call a religion; Odinism/Asatru is more aptly called; “Fjorn
Sidr” – (the ancient way). This “ancient way”
is a mode of living every moment of life as an integral part of
life, with responsibilities to family, folk, community, and the
very Gods/Goddesses that began the various tribes that have become
our race.
If you currently label yourself a Christian, Agnostic, or even
an Atheist, regardless of the degree to which you apply these
teachings in your personal sphere, do you still have a disquieted
sense of incompleteness? That subtle, yet insistent disquiet is
your inner divinity seeking your attention in an effort to restore
you to your birthright.
Understand me clearly; no one spiritual path will ever meet
the needs of every soul. No one path is superior, nor inferior
to any other, albeit I believe best results in spiritual ascension
come from that path that is historically and genetically a part
of a person’s make up.
If you would take back the rightful responsibility of your spiritual
evolution and be freed from misplaced fetters of unnatural guilt,
then check into your heritage find out if the Gods/Goddesses of
Odinism/Ásatrú are in your people’s history.
It is an individual’s responsibility to face life’s
pains, and joys with equanimity, to find the indwelling strength
to overcome and bring order to chaos. Groveling forgiveness will
never bring a lasting sense of “rightness,” your inner
divinity will not remain complacent. That, I deem, is the cause
of so many people’s reoccurring intuition that; “there
has to be something more.”
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