It has been a rather sunny last few days of April and sitting in the sun this afternoon got me thinking of our spiritual relationship with nature and with the many faiths we follow. I came up with some simple spiritual principles of many of the worlds religions that, to me, seem to be a primal spiritual concepts and subconscious need of humanity. The need to be part of the divine and to see the divinity of the natural world. This is a a very basic and general mystic view of underlying spiritual principles of most, if not all the worlds religions and dose not necessarily include the theology and tradition of scriptural based faiths. However the concepts are there in those faiths and theologies.
1. The Sun and Light is the focus of either spiritual metaphor or actual worship, for example, seen in the direction of worship toward east and the sun rising. Also the Father/Sky god is always observing.
2. There is a divine Mother or sacred motherly woman who brings life to the light of the world or is the life of the Earth its self. (Isis berthing Horus, Holy Virgin Mary and Jesus, Myths of Inanna and Dumuzi, Elysian mysteries, Attis and Cybele...)
3. There is Dankness and Balance of both light and dark night and day is almost always a spiritual concept of most faiths.
4. The dead or ancestors are never forgotten or gone from us and have become part of something bigger than us and are borne into a form of immortality and new life within nature.
5. The presence of Spirit or the Divine is in all things and in us.
Something to think about I guess when you next sit in the sun on a sunny day. This is not meant to discredit any faiths but to show that it is a basic human spiritual need to see the natural world as the movement and dance floor of the divine. That these concepts have always been part of continuing and renewing religion since the first humans had the inclination to see divinity, one of those things that have been with us always. "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be..."
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