Keeping the Sacred Flame

What is a prophet?  Someone that communicates with the Divine and looks into the future, predicting events from what is happening at the moment.  Someone that sees more than just what is obvious.

Someone that is willing to speak instead of be silent when they see a future they don’t like coming.

FlameKeeping should be a religion of prophets.  Not one – not me, speaking the truth once and forever held invioble after.  No – I am one voice of many.  I may be first, but my voice is not stronger or better than those that come after me.  I build this upon a synthesis of what has come before, and what comes after me will be a similar synthesis.

That’s not to say the old should just be thrown away for the sake of newness.  There needs to be a balance and intelligent thought put into what is kept and what is updated.  But updating happens.  Synthesis happens.  And we all have within us the ability to be a prophet and speak the truth, if we are willing to take that risk, that holy calling.

Be a prophet.  See the truth.  Speak the truth.

Live the truth.

Questions:
How do you speak truth in your life?  How do you avoid it?
What are the consequences for speaking truth?
What are the consequences for being silent?

Education is the foundation upon which we build ourselves.  If we do not have the knowledge at the bottom, we cannot build ourselves well, because we are lacking the structure we need.

This is not to say we need to know everything before we start to create ourselves.  That’s impossible.  But we must continue to learn, continue to explore the world around us.  And we must make learning something that is available for everyone, FlameKeeper or not, so that the Divine can learn and grow.  Just as we build ourselves on what we know, so does the Divine.

When learning is the enemy, we deny ourselves the chance to grow.  When our schools are nothing more than warehouses for children, we cheat them their future.  Education is the basis for everything.  When people are encouraged to seek information on their own and grow by their own choice, the world changes.

Education and learning isn’t simply something we do for ourselves.  When we learn and grow, and share what we know freely and with kindness instead of as a cudgel, we can improve the Divine.  Without knowledge, what we do is merely flailing in the wilderness – even if it turns out to be the right choice, we won’t know why.

Questions:
How do you encourage learning in your own life?
What do you think of education?  Is it a necessary evil or something you seek out?
What’s something you want to know and do not?  Seek it out and try to learn about it, then share what you know with someone else.