{"id":340,"date":"2008-03-25T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2008-03-25T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T00:01:00","slug":"and-speaking-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"And speaking of faith&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone!&nbsp; On Easter Sunday I posted about Faith.&nbsp; I was wracking my brain to remember this really cool quote that I had read years ago that reminded me of faith and Les Lois and all this wonderful magick that we do together.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t remember who wrote it or exactly what it said, but God Bless the Internet because with just a few key words I found it!!!&nbsp; I wanted to share it with you, it is by D.H. Lawrence.&nbsp; Oh those gods, those strange gods!&nbsp; \ud83d\ude09&nbsp; In re-reading this, I thought that every Vodouisant should have a copy of this quote and keep it close to their heart.<\/p>\n<p>Love, Mambo Sam<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is what I believe:<br \/>That I am I.<br \/>That my soul is a dark forest.<br \/>That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.<br \/>That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back.<br \/>That I must have the courage to let them come and go.<br \/>That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women.<br \/>There is my creed. &#8211; D.H. Lawrence<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=76,height=76,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/voodooboutique.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/03\/23\/lilguy22.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lilguy22\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Lilguy22\" src=\"https:\/\/voodooboutique.typepad.com\/mambosam\/images\/2008\/03\/23\/lilguy22.gif\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone!&nbsp; On Easter Sunday I posted about Faith.&nbsp; I was wracking my brain to remember this really cool quote that I had read years ago that reminded me of faith and Les Lois and all this wonderful magick that we do together.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t remember who wrote it or exactly what it said, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}