🌳 Harnessing Destruction to Create

Once, a sixty-foot maple stood sentinel before a man’s home — its roots deep, its crown unshaken. But rot moves silently, and even giants can hollow from the inside.

Left untended, it would fall. Left alone, it would choose its own direction of ruin. So the man — untrained, untested — took up the chainsaw. Not in anger, but in acknowledgement: endings are a form of authorship.

He cut. He cleared. And when the fall was done, he refused to leave it as wreckage.

From the living stump — its heart rebuilt with poured stone — three emblems rose:

• 🗡 The Sword in the Stone — the strength to act only when the act is right.
• ♞ A Knight on a Round Table — counsel over crown, purpose over pride.
• 🏆 The Holy Grail — lifted skyward, awaiting not salvation, but the willing hand that fills it.

🪚The Courage to Cut

If the man had done nothing, the tree would have destroyed his house. He chose to act. He chose to bring it down, and in its collapse, take a chainsaw to it to carve something new from what once threatened ruin. An instrument of destruction became an instrument of creation. The tool didn't change- only the intent.

Perhaps there is something in your life ready to collapse as well. Maybe that’s what brought you here. You sense it looming, heavy and inevitable. You may be afraid to cut it down, but you also know that if you don’t, it will crush what you care about. The only way forward is to act — to face the fall, and to make from it something that endures.

What looks like ruin becomes renewal. That inversion- destruction directed so creation can follow- sits at the heart of the courage to act decisively. Across centuries, thinkers have turned to such reversals, like the light we seek may be hidden in the figure we were told to reject as darkness. In 1889, Albert Pike named this turn of vision outright, calling it the Luciferian Doctrine…

"That which we must say to the crowd is: We worship a God, but it is the God that one adores without superstition. The religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian Doctrine... the true and pure philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay. For Lucifer is the God of Light and Good, struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of darkness and fanaticism."
— Albert Pike, Instructions to the 23 Supreme Councils of the World, July 14, 1889

but wait…

What the hell is the Luciferian Doctrine?

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