The Tree of Enchantment: Ancient Wisdom and Magic Practices of the Faery Tradition - Softcover

Foxwood, Orion

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578634075 ISBN 13: 9781578634071

Verlag: WEISER BOOKS, 2008

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In Faery Seership the truths we seek can only be found within ourselves, within nature, and within our relationships to nature. At the center of the Faery Tradition lies the Tree of Enchantment: the symbol for these relationships and for the threefold life of humanity. At each level of the tree, there are attending spirit forces that vary from beings of light to beings of shadow, from the ancestors of humanity to the architects of form and nature, from the destiny of our planet to the creation forces of the universe. The tree's roots grow through the lower world, where all life originates and the dead travel, its trunk and lower branches reach out across the middle world, where elemental forces and the four directions guide us, and its highest branches reach the into the upper world and the Star realm. Weaving together folk tradition and extensive academic research, Orion Foxwood has created an accessible, beautifully written pathway into the Old Religion of Faery Seership. Based on Appalachian traditions, Wiccan studies, Celtic oral traditions, and the Craft from Western and Northern Europe, The Tree of Enchantment offers the student of Faery Tradition both introductory and advanced visionary practices and authentic tools to learn to navigate the three realms of humanity. With diligence and an open heart, the reader will learn to cross The River of Blood, pass through The Gate of Awakening, and over The River of Stars.

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Orion Foxwood was born with the second sight in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, area rife with the folk practices of the southern and Appalachian tradition. He lectures in across the United States and the U.K.

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the Tree of Enchantment

Ancient Wisdom and Magical Practices of the Faery Tradition

By ORION FOXWOOD

Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

Copyright © 2008 Orion Foxwood
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-57863-407-1

Contents

Foreword by R.J. Stewart
Prologue
Part I: Approaching the Tree of Enchantment
Chapter 1 The Tree and the Keys
Chapter 2 The Threefold Life
Chapter 3 The Re-Enchantment of Life
Chapter 4 The Visionary and Magical Process in Faery Seership
Part II: The Vision Keys and the Gates
Chapter 5 The Divine Ancestor—Wisdom of the Blood
Chapter 6 The Guardian—Encountering the King of the World
Chapter 7 The Well of Enchantment—Opening the Gates of Faery
Chapter 8 The Gate of Memory and the River of Blood
Chapter 9 The Weaver—Goddess of Fate
Chapter 10 The Dreamer—The Vision of the Sacred Land
Chapter 11 The Stone—Raising the Star from the Stone
Chapter 12 The Gate of Awakening and the River of Stars
Chapter 13 The Star Father—Patriarch of Light
Chapter 14 The Utterer—She Who Breathes Forth the Stars
Chapter 15 The Holy Flame—Encountering the Peace Eternal
Epilogue—A Blessing to the Seeker
Bibliography
About the Author

CHAPTER 1

The Tree and the Keys

Welcome to the Tree of Enchantment

All of creation is driven by a type of "divine discontent." The poem "Unrest,"by Don Marquis, speaks great wisdom about the nature of life, the universe, ourplanet, humanity, and other living beings, both seen and unseen. This unrestmakes us wonder and seek, driven by some invisible and unrecognizable longing.It makes us search relentlessly for the answers to what we are and why we are.This divine discontent propels us on a search for answers—a quest for truth andsatisfaction—only to discover that the prize of our longing is within us andwithin all of nature, as well as in the relationships in between. For those whoseek a spiritual focus that puts humanity at the center of the universe and apath of spirituality centered on the individual, the path of Faery Seership canbe a challenge. In Faery Seership, the truths we seek can only be found withinourselves, within all of nature, and within the relationships in between.

Divine discontent was the seed of the Tree of Enchantment. The Tree grew into aforest of inquiry and self-exploration, wherein the Source sought to understanditself through all of its parts—all of its creations. In this way, all ofcreation is an aspect of and face of the Creator, or mechanisms by which theinfinite explores through the finite. Nowhere in the universe is this curiosityand drive to know more apparent than in the plight of the human species.

Humanity has, since before the beginnings of recorded history, explored themysteries of the universe for the answers to questions it can barely articulate.We seek to fill an inner need whose shadowy face is barely visible beyond thelight of our consciousness, and whose whispered name is lost in the cacophony ofour daily lives. But we must ask ourselves this question: How can we seek forthat which we never possessed? Rather than sailing the vast oceans to satisfy anunknowable craving, could it be that humanity is spurred on by the deep-seatedremembrance of a paradise lost? Perhaps encoded in the very substance of ourbeing is a memory of the first causation and the plan that prompted all ofcreation and our role within it.

Humanity stands in a dangerous and precarious place on the scales of life.Humanity has spent generations believing—adamantly and erroneously—that its ownreligions and perceptions of the universe, as defined by the programming ofpolitics, orthodoxy, and science, really define how the universe works and whereit is going. Think about it: How arrogant of us to believe that our philosophiesalone dictate the intention and destiny of all things! Today, more humans areawakening from the sedation of this programming, filled with an unsatisfiedhunger that drives them to look elsewhere for answers and fulfillment—to nature,occultism, mysticism, and other more arcane approaches. Mind you, there are manyvaluable components to our modern religions, science, and political processes—butthey are completely human and incomplete in and of themselves. What aboutthe rest of creation and the wisdoms contained within their lives and theirrelationships with each other and humanity? This is where Faery Seership and theTree of Enchantment bring new insights from old lore. The old lore gives usvaluable insights into the hidden faces and orders of life and how we, ashumans, must relate to them to become healthy, whole, and aware.

Metaphorically speaking, the Tree of Enchantment taps us on the shoulder,awakens our divine discontent, and declares:

Hey you! The answers you seek are not on that island of self-delusion, self-aggrandizement,and self-isolation. No, the answers you seek are in yourrelationship with the rest of the inner and outer orders of life. Truth is notout there on a cloud or throne in the heavens to be contemplated and revealed bysome distant order of spiritual beings. Rather, it is there within you, in yourblood and bones, and written into the processes of all life. Come home to yourblood. Come home to your spirit. Come home to the spirits that guide, guard, andbless you. Come home to your original family. Make peace with your divinediscontent. Make peace with creation and its attending spiritual forces. Let thepearl be revealed. Awaken to your purpose as an individual, a species, and aparticipant in the collective of creation. Bring your will, passion, andimagination back into the service of the One. Awaken the Dreaming Child ofPromise and be born again. It is time to come back to the Tree, eat its fruitsof wisdom, and let it awaken the seed of spirit within you. The first taste ofthese fruits imparted free will to your species. The second taste brings thatfree will home to the service of creation. Come, sit in the shade of the Tree ofWisdom and find where the branches enfold you. Come, know your spirit family andyour ancient heritage, and be at one.

The Tree provides a clear understanding of humanity's soul experiences inrelationship to the soul of the world of which we are part. However, themysteries of the Tree are only revealed to seekers when they come home to theirskin, their human ancestry, and the soul of nature in its masculine and feminineforms. You cannot choose one branch of the Tree over another. You must choosethe whole Tree or the isolation of the twig on which you stand.

At first, it seems that the Tree grows in a wilderness of despair. This despairis driven by an innate divine discontent within us that deludes us into thinkingthat our inherent flaws form a boundary that prevents us from becoming one withthe Creator. Do not let it fool you into thinking that you will never attaininner peace and oneness with creation and the Creator. You must go into thatwilderness and cry out for a vision, in humility and hope, as a child of theOne. When you have...

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• Verlag: WEISER BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1578634075
• ISBN 13: 9781578634071
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