Re: Triads as Druidic Dogma?
Branfionn
 
Fri Aug 11 11:58:19 2000
*p*    I've got news for ya buddy, dogma should get run over by karma.  Any kind of dogma.*p*    However, and I'd like to throw this out for all our structures actually, I highly recommend tri-form as the way to make us different from those, well, celtic wiccans. The triads are a classic.  Tri-form is the strongest first form.  A square is never as strong.  A triangle or pyramid would face up to a tornado or hurricane or earthquake or sunami better than a box.  But we are taught to build boxes. And so we do.*p*    Let's go way outside of the box as Druids. *p*    What have we?  *br* *br*     Triads.*br*     Triple Sovereigns and Deities (and *NOT* that Mother-Maid-Crone/Son-Lover-Sage thing!)*br*      Triskele*br*      Shamrock*br*      Earth-Sea-Sky - all those old Oaths.*br*      Three trees: Birch, Rowan and Yew (I am talking Celtic Druids now.)*br*      Braids*br*      Etc., etc. etc.*p*      One of the best ways to expand the mind is by working with non-verbal languages - like computers, like mathematics, like music.  It makes you stretch.  I'd always like to see a healthy dose of stretching built in to our structure.  I'd like to see Summerlands get better as it goes.  Not remain the same.  Not static.  A good basis to build on more like. *p*(And, yes, you have to pass the tests/teacher to be termed qualified.  And even once qualified I believe that someone can become unfit to teach for other reasons.  Case by case...Common vote might do just fine.)*p*    Muddling quite happily today...day off...<smile>*p*    Branfionn*p*We could put a byline on all books "The best we've found so far, c. 2000/2001/2002-----"  Keep the container fluid.  Or "future editions always possible."*p**br*Searles wrote,*br*: I know dogma gets a bad rap among Pagans because it is just *br*: so... well... dogmatic!  However, I think that the Druids *br*: solved this problem by presenting their more dogmatic *br*: approaches to many common topics of behavior and values *br*: through a triadic approach. 
Triads as Druidic Dogma?
Searles
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Fri Aug 11 09:24:09 2000