I Have Called On The Goddess And

What Wise God Would Consign A Man To Hell For Ignorance, Instead Of Teaching Him Better In The Afterlife?

From These Christians Who Came To [avalon] To Escape The Bigotry Of Their Own Kind I Learned Something, At Last, Of The Nazarene, The Carpenter's Son Who Had Attained Godhead In His Own Life And Preached A Rule Of Tolerance; And So I Came To See That My Quarrel Was Never With The Christ, But With His Foolish And Narrow Priests Who Mistook Their Own Narrowness For His.

I Think Too Many People Presume To Read The Divine Scriptures And Fall Into Such Terrors As This,' Said Patricius Sternly. 'those Who Presume On Their Learning Will Learn, I Trust, To Listen To Their Priests For The True Interpretations.' The Merlin Smiled Gently. 'i Cannot Join You In That Wish, Brother. I Am Dedicated To The Belief That It Is God's Will That All Men Should Strive For Wisdom In Themselves, Not Look To It From Some Other. Babes, Perhaps, Must Have Their Food Chewed For Them By A Nurse, But Men May Drink And Eat Of Wisdom For Themselves.

And So, Perhaps, The Truth Winds Somewhere Between The Road To Glastonbury, Isle Of The Priests, And The Road To Avalon, Lost Forever In The Mists Of The Summer Sea.

The Goddess Does Not Shower Her Gifts On Those Who Reject Them.