We are Earths hidden children of Light, and the kin of those who brought the civilizing arts to a barren land within a vast sea of gas and dust.

Ours is the privilege and the duty to be men amongst men, Women amongst women, all of us leaders of the way.

Wisdom fallen from the sky, unbidden by those whose fortune it was to be our host.

All those who have passed along with all those who will follow upon our heel are the body of our secret companionship. We stand now as we have stood before and never shall we bend our knee for we are more than a simple folk.



LUX ./. owen

He who is illuminated with the Brightest Light will cast the Darkest Shadow. ~~Qutub

I was reading through the Lost Gospel of the Essenes today and the phrase "Children of Light" appears many, many times in there. Its a wonderful work

I wonder to whom would one's knee bend? Does bending the knee mean "giving up" or does it mean reverence, or simple awe... Does the bending of the knee make the bendee less of a "person" than the one before whom he bends? I suppose the answer depends on before whom one bends and the reason. To be forced to bend on one's knee is to take any sacred meaning out of bending. To bend before a god form - even if one is divine themselves - I do not look at as submission, or devaluing, or demeaning. To go down one one's knees in an unanticipated and unconscious reaction to awe has no loss of value to the one bending although it may be a loss of ego

Bending of the knee or bowing brings to mind the NOLA Mardi Gras Indians, who are fierce about not bowing down or bending knee - not recognizing any authority over them. I believe the reference to knee bending infers that our culture, the culture of Witches, will not "bow down" to any other.