"Keep the faith and hold the line. Do not abandon the divine precepts, nor turn your back on the Gods and presume them to save you from your folly. Prayer and presumption are not enough for those who put forth no action of their own. Responsibility is a sacred law and the foundation of society. Let us never disregard it under the presumption that the Gods will save us from ourselves, that they will serve and reward us even as we reject them, that nature will uphold us even as we try to defy it. Have you not yet learned that whatever contradicts nature meets extinction? Wherein is there room for mercy and forgiveness? Nature gives its violators no quarter, and I, a follower of Nature, likewise give Her violators no quarter in the Temple."

Daily Aesop's Fables:

The Silkworm and Spider


Having received an order for twenty yards of silk from Princess
Lioness, the Silkworm sat down at her loom and worked away with
zeal. A Spider soon came around and asked to hire a web-room near
by. The Silkworm acceded, and the Spider commenced her task and worked
so rapidly that in a short time the web was finished. "Just look at
it," she said, "and see how grand and delicate it is. You cannot but
acknowledge that I'm a much better worker than you. See how quickly
I perform my labors." "Yes," answered the Silkworm, "but hush up,
for you bother me. Your labors are designed only as base traps, and
are destroyed whenever they are seen, and brushed away as useless
dirt; while mine are stored away, as ornaments of Royalty."


~ "True art is thoughtful, delights and endures."~

MEDITACIONES DE
CONSCIENCIA​

Ética de Afrodita, Γ, Creación
"... La vida es el proceso de creación y debe ser apreciada y defendida como el elemento más sagrado del universo: la forma de la creación."​

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Daily Aesop's Fables:

Mercury and the Woodman


A Woodman was felling a tree on the bank of a river, when his axe,
glancing off the trunk, flew out of his hands and fell into the water.
As he stood by the water's edge lamenting his loss, Mercury appeared
and asked him the reason for his grief. On learning what had happened,
out of pity for his distress, Mercury dived into the river and,
bringing up a golden axe, asked him if that was the one he had lost.
The Woodman replied that it was not, and Mercury then dived a second
time, and, bringing up a silver axe, asked if that was his. "No,
that is not mine either," said the Woodman. Once more Mercury dived
into the river and brought up the missing axe. The Woodman was
overjoyed at recovering his property, and thanked his benefactor
warmly, and the latter was so pleased with his honesty that he made
him a present of the other two axes.

When the Woodman told the story
to his companions, one of these was filled with envy of his good
fortune and determined to try his luck for himself. So, he went and
began to fell a tree at the edge of the river, and presently contrived
to let his axe drop into the water.

Mercury appeared as before, and,
on learning that his axe had fallen in, he dived and brought up a
golden axe, as he had done on the previous occasion. Without waiting
to be asked whether it was his or not, the fellow cried, "That's mine,
that's mine," and stretched out his hand eagerly for the prize: but
Mercury was so disgusted at his dishonesty that he not only declined
to give him the golden axe, but also refused to recover for him the
one he had let fall into the stream.


~ "Honesty is the best policy." ~

Show me to understand, so I enable myself to truth.
So I am not in slavery, and my power in mechanisms of its manifestations; fear, laziness, ways commanded by logics I did not choose.
I am forever grateful to You, the miracle of all.