Diary of a Heretic

There has been a significant amount of chaos prevailing in and around my life over the past few months. This chaos has precipitated a reflective mood as I digest and ruminate over the events. The end result of this calamity has given me cause to deliberate over the nature of the Cosmic Laws, and how it applies to the human kind.

Occasionally you run into someone who is hiding behind the banner of spirituality, in reality their motives are self-gratifying and counter productive to anything truly spiritual; they live by the ‘anything goes’ or the ‘everyone for themselves’ principle. Some say that this principle is called the Law of the Jungle but this is a common misconception. In actuality it is the exact opposite; when Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem the Law of the Jungle, he was trying to emphasize that ‘the law’ is about the virtues of loyalty, keeping your promises, courage, and respect for other people and acting in accordance with the good of the all. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a boy separated from his mother by a hungry tiger, who is adopted by a loving wolf pack that teaches him the true nature of the law of the jungle. The first verse of ‘The Law of the Jungle’ states:

Now this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back –
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Unfortunately, the ‘good of the all’, ‘the strength of the pack’ gets lost when people deliberately enforce their own private agendas to the detriment of everyone else. I often question if the Law of Return or the Karmic Laws does have an impact on those that break ‘the law’ assuming that these laws actually exist. One can only hope that there is such a system of applied justice.

Over the centuries there has been much idealism about the ‘good of the all’ for example, ‘All for one, and one for all’ (un pour tous, tous pour un) a motto traditionally associated with the King’s Musketeers in the novel The Three Musketeers written by Alexandre Dumas. In the novel, it was the motto of a trio of French musketeers named Athos, Porthos and Aramis who stayed loyal to each other through thick and thin.

I guess in life you will meet all kinds of people. There are those you meet that have pure intentions, that touch your heart and soul and you give thanks that you are part of their life and they are a part of yours. Through love and support the sense of ‘all’ grows stronger and stronger. Then there are those that are self seeking and create chaos and division; these people randomly come into your life for a reason and can often help you appreciate what you have and can give you the impetus to change what needs to be changed.

I must admit that I’m done with the chaos for the time being and I am looking forward to the ‘going within’ which comes with the onset of the colder months. Samhain is only a few weeks away but already I feel the thinning veil and I long for the comfort of submersing myself into the darkness as I am far more at home and safe in the familiar landscapes of the Otherworlds.

All is one: Nothing stays the same.