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DREAM STAVE

“This stave is to be carved on lignite with a dogfish spine when the moon is three nights old, and placed beneath your head. You will then dream whatever you wish.”

"Influenced" would perhaps be not quite the right word; studying Gnosticism allowed me to clarify my beliefs for myself and put them into language.

I believe in the Creator - a source that makes existence possible and defines the nature of all, material and immaterial. It does not necessarily require veneration or has consciousness in the way humanity can recognise, really, as one would expect from an immeasurable multitude expressed thought an endless number of minds and items, separate and one through being contained within It. On the other hand, through the very awareness we are able to make the connection coscious; it can not be made or severed, as it is a matter of being itself. The Creator is infinitely good and kind, as, containing, experiencing, and being all at once, It can have nothing but acceptance, compassion, and love for all of Itself.

Through It are formed other spiritual beings, including what we would call gods; among them those that can be, with a certain backgroud knowledge, categorised as devils. Among them, too, is every other soul, friendly, hostile, hungry, giving, and everything in between.

I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed.

We stand at the crossroads, at the triple way, three paths before us woven by the Moirai since the beginning of time. We stand at the gates of choice and ask for the guidance of you the three faced, three-aspected Goddess who has walked these paths from time immemorial. I am prepared for you. I call upon you. I am waiting for you, my Great Goddess.

Hail Hekate, Goddess of the realms, Key-keeper of the cosmos, May your torches continue To shine the way for us.