The Source

 

 

 

To relax and enjoy some light reading, I read Louis Lamour Westerns. On Page 13 of his novel, Silver Canyon, Lamour describes how badly beaten protagonist Matt Brennan leaves the village where he was caught off guard, and brutally beaten. He left town and went deep into the wilderness, to have time to heal, regroup, recover, and return to fight again.

 

Here is what the character Matt Brennan said about himself: “At daylight I found myself in a long canyon where tall pines grew. There was a stream talking somewhere under the trees, and, turning, from the game trail I had followed, I walked my buckskin through knee-high grass and flowers and into the pines. It smelled good there, and I was glad to be alone in the wilderness which is the source of all strength.”

 

That phrase, the wilderness as the source of all strength, is what did leap out at me, and intrigued me so much I had to do a blog entry about it.

 

I am wondering if nature is the source of all strength. It certainly is a great source of strength because we are beasts and animals as well as walking, speaking bipeds. Nature is our origin, as least biologically, so we will do well to stay in harmony with it, and have some intimate, spiritual communion with nature to stay healthy, balanced and of sane, decent perspective. Humans sicken and die if divorced wholly from nature.

 

The Divine Couple created the world, and their supernatural laws, specifically oriented by them to run the created world by operating codified natural laws, would make human contact with nature both a biological affinity for us as one of nature’s animals, and a source of spiritual comfort for us as the Divine Couple’s Logos or rational energy does come to us as naturally regulated by nature to our person and being, so we need that indirect, nature-mediated energy from the major deities to stay healthy, happy and feel that there is meaning and belong for us in nature.

 

Lamour also could be suggesting that nature is the source of all strength for the rugged individualist that goes out there, on his own, with no assistance from anyone—materially or emotionally—and if one can handle surviving, thriving and healing completely by depending solely upon self-reliance, personal resourcefulness and competence, then that success is very empowering for self-help is the source of most human strength, which, for Brennan, in this fictitious scenario, is demonstrated by him as he excels in action, in a state of pure nature in the wilderness.

 

Always, as a moderate, I contradict myself, so I will here too. The Light Couple are the ultimate source of strength for us, and they are found in the city (In the city, towns or suburbs is where the good deities are most able to talk to us and guide us.) more than in the country let alone in pure wilderness (Tribal, collective life was the norm for humans for at least tens of thousands of years in the pure wilderness.).

 

Satan and Lera are at their strongest and most perilous in the pure wilderness, less so in the country, less so in the city, less so in villages, and least powerful in the suburbs.

 

Brennan is an individualist, so the wilderness is a source of strength for him.

 

Humans will find their greatest source of strength by self-realizing, emulating the Great Spirits and good deities, individuators all. Heaven is more artificial, manufactured, suburban and unnatural than it is organic, natural, wild, untamed, and savage, but it is both in ways that I cannot specifically describe.

 

We need to live in the suburbs more than not, but we can live anywhere and still do well as pious, holy, egoistic, individuators anarchists as long as we enjoy nature, yet we self-consciously and deliberately develop our own natures to actualize our essential potential; so living is our telos.