HopefulChild wrote:I love this thread!
Thank you.
I have always felt that burnt offerings are best. But I don't think you have to actually burn your offerings.
So I do what I always do. I kept going back. I wanted to see the root. Smoke and Ash. As stated above the smoke and ash were the root of the offering and the gods would partake of essence.
Great to see another practitioner who burn his sacrifices or offerings!
Just like native people the world over who still practice the same cultural traditions as their ancestors, I beleive smoke is the vehicle between dimensions. Smoke has always been magical.
This is really GREAT! This is my belief as well! I actually consider both the fire and the smoke on my firepot or firebowl where I burn my sacrifices (meat, herbs or flowers, woods, bread. etc.) are no ordinary fire and smoke. I believe the fire is the essence of my Deities which consumed the burnt offering while the smoke is my offerings' spiritual form.
Just like a nuclear fission or fusion that takes matter and reveals that it's all simply solidified energy -- there's a huge amount of energy or force packed into every particle of matter (hey! didn't I mentioned that before?
). The fire on my shrine or altar performed reversal creation. The fire took the physical and "melted" it -- returning the offering to a spiritual energy in the form of airborne gaseous particulates emission or smoke, which it was composed.
Whenever I'm bringing my offering, I always experience and see and feel the physical being returning to its spiritual source through the steam and smoke, when I see that our world is pure spiritual, I'm uplifted to a place where the oneness of all was felt. I'm transported to a mode in which the fragmentation I normally feel is vanished.
