The Grey Path

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    I wrote this up in german and tried to translate it, it sure in english sounds less philosophical or intellectual than i wanted it to be :)

    The Grey Path
    Author unknown.
    transferred by Stundorn Stureson
    from the remains of a Book found in the Epitaph

    Before the light shone the world, before darkness befell the night, there was twilight. Grey.
    There was nothing facing to the one or the other, nothing was shared, everything was ONE.
    Nothing promoted the one and suppressed the other.
    This source was LIFE and DEATH, LIGHT and DARK, GOOD, and BAD.
    But then it was that the one becomes two and two becomes three and the tenthousand things were created.
    From then on, the world was in unrest and divided.
    The encouragement of one thing was the oppression of the other, and so the people were struggling and the TRUE KNOWLEDGE about the ONE from which the tenthousand things had passed went lost.
    There were good and evil, gods and demons, heroes and villains, opinions and teachings.
    But the doctrine of the ONE that was all things was lost.
    The Grey Path leads back to the ONE, to the origin of ALL.
    The Gray Path does not lead into nothing, because nothing is the opposite of something; and so it does not lead to something either.
    The Gray Path leads to the fact that things arise and pass away without disturbing each other, it leads to peace and serenity and to TRUE KNOWLEDGE, to freedom and wisdom.
    All knowledge is valuable, but the benefit of knowledge depends on the perspective, from the point of view.
    Wisdom is at the center of knowledge. The wisest point of view is the one in the center, from which all knowledge, all points of view, and all doctrines are equally distant.
    It is not CHAOS, because the chaos is not centered, not ONE, but many things.
    Chaos, like everything else, has emerged from the tens of thousands of things that have once again emerged from the ONE.
    It is part of the ONE and the ONE is part of the chaos.
    The ONE does not stretch outside, does not reach for the edges around itself, but cooncentrates everything in one point.
    It centers all knowledge around itself. Black and white come together. Good and evil, light and dark, life and death flow in the center and become in the origin again ONE and grey.
    Whosoever promotes only one and suppresses the other, whoever accumulates knowledge one-sidedly remains marginal and never reaches the core, the origin of knowledge and wisdom, he will always only scratch at the hull of knowledge, knowing one thing and cling to it while not knowing the other and denying it.
    But to know and at the same time to know nothing, that is the TRUE KNOWLEDGE, that is wisdom.
    This is the Grey Path.
     
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    Nebelschwaden bedecken im Schein des Mondlichts Täler und Wälder,
    verhüllen namenlose Gestade und hüllen das Land in einen grauen Schleier.
    Rauhreif schlägt sich nieder und löst sich aus dem Äther.
    Grau soll dein Geist sein, sanft und ruhend wie der Nebel am Weiher.

    Stundorn Stureson - Gedichte des Grauen Pfades.
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    In the moonlight mist clouds cover valleys and forests,
    conceal nameless shores and wrap the country in a grey veil.
    Rime breaks down and dissolves from the ether.
    Grey shall be your spirit, gentle and dormant as the fog at the pond.

    Stundorn Stureson - Poems of the Grey Path.

    ((in german it "sounds" well :)))
     
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    "The Brotherhood of the Gray Path is a union of all those men and women who have made virtue to consider knowledge neutrally, not to lose themselves in dualisms and categories like good and evil.
    They take a standpoint in the center, from which you look at everything neutrally and penetrate the core of knowledge and wisdom.

    The Gray Path is a path of adventurers and explorers who are openly exploring and discovering, whose neutrality to all things, teachings and opinions allows them to remain all-embracing and uninfluenced.
    They are not hiding anything, since they can not be blinded by the idea of promoting one and neglecting or even suppressing the other.

    All aspects must be illuminated, no black-and-white thinking, but grey should be the spirit.
    No good or evil, no right or wrong; everything is, as it were, significant or insignificant, everything springs from the center.
    This center was not fire, not ice, not life not death, not light or darkness, but grey, the one out of which everything emerged.
    Then people shared things in good and bad, right and wrong, light and dark, but all this depending on their point of view.
    Who is able to say whether the dark is not right, and the light is not evil, who can judge whether this or that is right, and the contrary is wrong?
    Anyone who follows the Grey Path goes to the center of things where light and darkness, right and wrong, good and evil are always equally distant.
    Looking from the center, one sees the core of the matter and explores the true essence of all things and reaches true insight and wisdom.

    Join the Grey Path, explore the world, acquire knowledge, wisdom and inexhaustible power.
    Knowledge is power and wisdom the key to true, inner strength!

    Stundorn Stureson,
    Seidmen of Gladsheim
    Pilgrim of the Gray Path

    Gladsheim, Monday, July 16, 513PC

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    Bookmarked. Will go over it again wben I'm less tired. Muxh appreciated @Stundorn :)
     
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    Those were awesome! great work!
     
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    Thanks i will do more in time ;-)
     
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