Can’t wait to listen! Well yes I can, because the sun is out and I need to walk the beach first. I don’t know if you mention the work of R. Ogilvie Crombie and his encounters with Pan and elementals. Two amazing excerpts:
“…the nature spirits were choosing to communicate with me. Here was a step towards the reconciliation of Pan and the world of the nature spirits with humanity.
Because I had been able to respond to him without fear, Pan could communicate with me and use me as a mediator between humanity and nature. This does not make me important in myself—I am simply a channel for his work.
Vital to this reconciliation is the recognition of Pan's true nature. He is a great being, the god of the whole elemental kingdom as well as of the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms. People may feel uneasy in his presence because of the awe he inspires, but there ought to be no fear.
'All human beings are afraid of me," he had said at our first meeting, not as a threat but with sadness. 'Did the early Christian church not take me as a model for the devil?' That is why Pan is feared-because of the image projected onto him. This stigma must be lifted in order to re-establish the true link between humanity and nature.
Pan has said to me he would prefer not to be represented in any material form at all. Yet, if he must be, he insists on being accepted, in our culture, as the Greek…..”
“The next significant meeting was early in May on Iona in the Hermit’s Cell, which is a ring of stones, all that is left of the cell where Columba used to go in retreat. It is about half way across the island almost on a level with the Abbey. I was there with two friends (Peter and Kathy). I was standing in the centre of the ring facing in the direction of the Abbey which was hidden from sight by rising ground. In front of me was a grassy slope and I became aware of a large figure lying in the ground – right in the ground. I could see him through the grass. It was a monk in a brown habit with the hood pulled over the head so that I could not see the features. His feet were towards me.
As I watched he raised his hands and rolled back the hood. It was Pan. He rose up out of the ground and stood facing me, an immense figure at least twenty-five feet tall. As he did so, the habit fell away. He was smiling and he said:
“I am a servant of Almighty God and I and my subjects are willing to come to the aid of mankind in spite of the way he has treated us and abused nature, if he affirms belief in us and asks for our help.”
I knew then that this was the beginning of a reconciliation between Pan, the Nature Spirits and man.”
Can’t wait to listen! Well yes I can, because the sun is out and I need to walk the beach first. I don’t know if you mention the work of R. Ogilvie Crombie and his encounters with Pan and elementals. Two amazing excerpts:
“…the nature spirits were choosing to communicate with me. Here was a step towards the reconciliation of Pan and the world of the nature spirits with humanity.
Because I had been able to respond to him without fear, Pan could communicate with me and use me as a mediator between humanity and nature. This does not make me important in myself—I am simply a channel for his work.
Vital to this reconciliation is the recognition of Pan's true nature. He is a great being, the god of the whole elemental kingdom as well as of the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms. People may feel uneasy in his presence because of the awe he inspires, but there ought to be no fear.
'All human beings are afraid of me," he had said at our first meeting, not as a threat but with sadness. 'Did the early Christian church not take me as a model for the devil?' That is why Pan is feared-because of the image projected onto him. This stigma must be lifted in order to re-establish the true link between humanity and nature.
Pan has said to me he would prefer not to be represented in any material form at all. Yet, if he must be, he insists on being accepted, in our culture, as the Greek…..”
“The next significant meeting was early in May on Iona in the Hermit’s Cell, which is a ring of stones, all that is left of the cell where Columba used to go in retreat. It is about half way across the island almost on a level with the Abbey. I was there with two friends (Peter and Kathy). I was standing in the centre of the ring facing in the direction of the Abbey which was hidden from sight by rising ground. In front of me was a grassy slope and I became aware of a large figure lying in the ground – right in the ground. I could see him through the grass. It was a monk in a brown habit with the hood pulled over the head so that I could not see the features. His feet were towards me.
As I watched he raised his hands and rolled back the hood. It was Pan. He rose up out of the ground and stood facing me, an immense figure at least twenty-five feet tall. As he did so, the habit fell away. He was smiling and he said:
“I am a servant of Almighty God and I and my subjects are willing to come to the aid of mankind in spite of the way he has treated us and abused nature, if he affirms belief in us and asks for our help.”
I knew then that this was the beginning of a reconciliation between Pan, the Nature Spirits and man.”
Yes! This is exactly why i wanted to talk to Michael. ROC's conversations prove to be thrilling and fascinating. I hope you enjoy the convo!
...within the first two minutes and many times throughout! Of course you bring up ROC. Love this and thank you both!
Pagan Christs--J.M. Robertson (1911)
https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cv/pch/index.htm