#sacred texts

[hermas-mora]

Real dot com slash true…

[arachneviii]

This has been my sacred scripture since I was a small child 🙂‍↕️🙏

[creature-wizard]

I am really coming to appreciate how what many people refer to as "spiritual" readings of certain texts is literally just projecting whatever they want to believe on the parts of the text that seem to support their beliefs while ignoring all the parts that don't.

I need people to understand that this is bad methodology because you can convince yourself that nearly any text says nearly anything you want by reading and interpreting it this way. You're not finding objective spiritual truths, you're just bamboozling yourself.

[protectyouropacities]

“In the same way your heart feels and your mind thinks, you, mortal beings, are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares. If you don’t, then it doesn’t.”

— Brennan Lee Mulligan, Dimension 20

[zabchan]

for my fellow moana *cough maui cough* fans. this page is a list of texts related to the religion and mythology of pacific islanders. oral histories recorded, English translations of Hawaiian epics, folk tale anthologies, etc.

contains the full text of a book I found particularly helpful in comparing common maui myths across island cultures; Legends of Maui, A Demi-God of Polynesia, by W. D. Westervelt, [1910]

Pretty reliable sources for anyone looking to add authenticity to their moana fics, curious how disney's maui holds up against canon IRL Maui, or just searching for inspiration.

(keep in mind some of these sources are from ye olde europeans with their own inherent biases towards pocs, but as far as I can tell the authors are pretty good about showing their work in terms of crediting native voices & consulting local experts. )

[slippery-domjot-balls]

The Sacred Texts!!!!!

[owl-liberation-now]

this image is apparently not on google anymore and I only found it again because I made it the icon for the family group chat in like 2018

[aethyrmazz]

a person can love you, but they can't satisfy the hunger in your soul.

[goldroses123]

yeah

sacred geometry everything can be found in nature

[sushiburritonoms]

I just started reading sacred texts and wanted to let you know how in love I am. DinLuke and QuiObi? What a dream.

Hi! I'm so happy you found my fic! I'm sorry I haven't updated it in a while. It's still my intention to finish it at some point as its a very personal story for me. I'm currently slogging through another fic in a different fandom, but I think I may return to my SW roots later this spring/early summer.

Although, I'd have to make myself finish Season 3 of Mando ..help.

[itd-be-gay-if-you-didnt]

Hello friends, I'm back ❤️ I discovered tiktok via this app in September of 2018. In January 2025, 3,406 followers and probably around 800-1,000 videos later, amidst its demise, I return.

[eagle-writes]

I… may need a feed of newly digitized manuscripts from the Vatican.

[thelordofsirius]

"In the analysis of the Egyptian Mysteries, the light of the/ our Arcane knowledge, we find that the corner-stone of knowledge which was actually a wisdom gained through initiation —had its foundation in the certainty that the first great cause for existence itself was spirit; that the first and only element was the Soul, and that this Soul existed eternally and filled infinity.

By the power of its Will, the Soul divided itself into emanations or many separate or individual Souls, and being from God, or part God— its own inherent capacity for creation, the unresting, or eternally restless element of force, was evolved.

Following this came matter which, moving on the ocean of chaos, created form and evolved or established order.

Hence said, with truth—and those seeking to attain the ultimate should remember this saying in all its applications— that "Order heaven's first Law," because confusion or chaos always follows disobedience. He who refuses to obey this Law will be destroyed.

In the order of creation, the fiery particles of matter ascended. It is written that "heaven" is above. To form the luminous bodies, the heavier bodies descended and ultimately separated into earths, seas, plants, animals and, finally, into the entities which became men.

This "earth plane" what we know as "hell," or the temporal — the ever-changing and constantly-suffering plane of existence. the below into which Souls fall to gain wisdom and understanding experiencing both joy and suffering."

Excerpt from - The Mysteries of Osiris or Ancient Egyptian Initiation by R. Swinburne Clymer

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[creature-wizard]

You really gotta get the point where you can read what you reckon to be a holy text - as in, holy for you - and occasionally go "pfffftttbbhbhbhbh that's your opinion."

[protectyouropacities]

“Doubt cannot be a belief, but it should be a practice.”

— Brennan Lee Mulligan, Dimension 20: Fantasy High Sophomore Year

[santmat]

The Yoga of Sound -- Exploring Sound Meditation (Auditory Mysticism, Surat Shabd Yoga) in the Sacred Texts of the Great World Religions, Gnostic Traditions, and the Path of the Masters: https://SantMatRadhasoami.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-yoga-of-sound-exploring-sound.html

"Who else is Christ but the Sound of God?" (Acts of John, new testament apocryphal text with gnostic elements)