Quando in un bosco ne percepisci la bellezza e diventi tutt'uno con il bosco, allora, intuitivamente, sei in armonia e in pace con le Dee e con gli Dei. Essi sono parte della nostra vera natura, la nostra Natura Profonda, e quando siamo separati dalla nostra vera natura, viviamo nella paura. Percepire questa normalità vuol dire dare un senso reale al vivere che è insito in tutte le cose.

Intraprendere la Via Romana al Divino significa iniziare un percorso di risveglio: praticando l'attenzione e la consapevolezza continua ci incamminiamo lungo una strada sapendo che ciò che conta è il cammino per sè più che la destinazione.

When you, entering a forest, perceive the beauty of the forest and you feel to be in a complete harmony with it, then, intuitively, you are in peace with the Deities. They are an essential part of our real nature, our Deep Nature, and when we are separated by our real nature we live in the fear. Perceiving such normality means giving a real sense to our lives.

Undertaking the Roman Via to the Deities implies a path to awakening: with the practice of continuing consciousness and awareness we undertake our walking knowing that taking the path is more important than the destination itself
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giovedì 15 aprile 2010

Paganism and Politics

Political committment and civil responsibility have a peculiar role in Traditional Roman Paganism: surely a strong sense of civil responsibility and committment towards a community play an important role because a community is assumed to be a sort of an extended family.

In the same time a religious dimension supports the political sphere because, like in those dimension considered "normal", politics must have some religious and sacred implications.

The family (sacralized in the Goddess Vesta) is the bias around which a community is focused and sacralized (in its public meetings) in the God Quirinus. Politics are above all sacralized by the figure of Jupiter (the male polarization of the numen Jupiter/Juno)

Jupiter is the sacralization of the "near sky": he gives signs in the sky materialized by the birds' flying (augures observe them in a part of the sky ideally limited - templum). Jupiter is however the sacralization of politics and law, power and justice: he is the witness, granting oaths and punishing those violating public and private agreements.

In this way, political committment is not only a civil responsibility but also a form of religious coherence.

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