Asatru Folk Assembly - Twelve Days of Yule Day 12 December 2008

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00:00:00.000 The twelfth day of Yule, we light a candle and remember Wisdom.

00:00:12.000 What is Wisdom?

00:00:14.000 Perhaps it can be summed up in the word understanding.

00:00:18.000 It takes only a little wisdom to understand superficial things,

00:00:22.000 while understanding the subtle pattern and flow of events requires much more.

00:00:28.000 Wisdom can come in a flash of inspired initiation, but for most of us, most of the time, it is

00:00:35.000 the product of gradually processing information and experience, and casting golden truths

00:00:42.000 from that refined ore.

00:00:44.800 However you define it, wisdom is very important.

00:00:48.280 Without it, we are impotent, but with it, we can enact our wills in the world.

00:00:56.000 Let us be wise.

00:01:11.160 This day I will pour a libation to Odin, the very embodiment of wisdom-seeking.

00:01:18.660 I will seek wisdom this day.

00:01:26.000 Thank you.

Asatru Folk Assembly - February 02, 2021