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"Faerie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, dragons: it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted." -- Tolkien
The Holiness of Simple Things
People today often assume that the old and secret ways involved great and secret power, deep knowledge, dogma and revelation about things unknown to modern people. In truth, much of the knowledge of old, the Cunning, the lore that is handed down involves simple things, everyday things, but things seen with new eyes, and revered with a separate understanding.
Such knowledge can be taught, but the path is long and arduous; it is not a path of a year and a day, but a study of many years, involving not so much mountains of lore, as learning to see and think in a different way.
Why would any undertake such a task? Because our modern World, our modern way of seeing things and thinking, is fundamentally alienating. The more we surrender to materialism, consumerism, individualism, to technology (the irony!), to an empirical viewpoint, the less we are at harmony with our World, our land, our past and our selves.
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The Power of the Pellors
The power of the Pellor lies not so much in theatrical displays of magic, but in finding the balance, the proper order of things. A Pellor had an ability to recognize when something was out of balance and knew it was a mere matter of time before the balance would be restored; but if no one helped the return of balance, then it might be restored destructively, and to the harm of many. It was the duty of the pellor to bring back the balance to man and beast, field and flock, water and land and air.
To undertake to do such things requires no little craft, no petty knowledge; one must understand how things really are, but also how they are meant to be. Once you have such knowledge and craft, amazing things are possible. But no one should do an amazing thing for effect, nor merely to prove one's power.
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