00:00:00.000so i want to reiterate a couple of things and this is something that i've said many times on this
00:00:07.680program and i may sound like a broken record but for folks that this is the first time turning in
00:00:13.280or tuning in rather um our gods are not a science project they're not a literary device
00:00:22.000they're not archetypical ways of human expression they are gods they are literally gods
00:00:31.680um but what's one of the one of the most magical ways that our gods
00:00:38.160interact with our reality is through those truths that witness fawn was talking about
00:00:43.920so there's something at play here that you know through western esotericism since the beginning
00:00:53.480we understand as above so below the relationships and the things that we see amongst our gods are
00:01:01.240reflected in things that we see in our lives and in the history of human experience but it's
00:01:08.200important to remember as above so below not as below so above the directionality of that is very
00:01:16.680important when we see and learn truth we can apply it to situations that are similar that's valid and
00:01:24.020good to do but the stories of our gods aren't us projecting our life experience on the divine
00:01:35.940they're the divine projecting truth through us and there's an important distinction there that
00:01:43.940it's really it's necessary to remember our relationship with our gods isn't an academic
00:01:50.820endeavor academics helps us to understand them better certainly uh but our gods we can't
00:01:58.420Second, we are much better served approaching our gods like children and believing that our gods are the real people that they are and building a relationship with them that way than we are scholasticizing our gods to where we see them as some kind of concepts or some kind of, you know, archaeological construction.
00:02:21.660ideally we're mature enough to do both and have the the the history the archaeology the lore
00:02:30.120inform us to better build a relationship with our gods but if we could either have a loving
00:02:38.620gift exchanging interpersonal relationship with our gods or be experts on migrations of ancient
00:02:47.660peoples, we are much better served having a kinship and a relationship with our gods.