Proof, the play by David Auburn that was made into a movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Sir Anthony Hopkins, is a wonderful treatise on the human response when faced with the unknowable. Intellectually unknowable. Personally unknowable. Spiritually unknowable. It's about trust in something that we cannot prove to be true, yet we believe nonetheless. David Auburn's story centers around a mathematical proof that becomes the test for the existence of faith and true love - between father and daughter, sister and sister, man and woman. It points to a greater, cosmic belief in each other as human beings. This is the very nature of belief in the divine.

We approach our magickal work "in perfect love and perfect trust" because without this perfect trust how can we know the Goddess and God? We can't. Despite St. Thomas Aquinas' mathematical proof for the existence of God, true faith in the existence of the divine stems from trust in that which is empirically unknowable. Spirit may come to us in many forms but ultimately we have no proof. We trust. We believe.

When we trust that the divine is possible in the world, we must accept that by extension it is possible within ourselves. For many of us this is the more difficult thing to believe.

Believe in yourselves. Blessed be.

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 5:09 PM