Liber ab Genesis (Book of Creation)^49
of birth, not one of union, but of separation. For, as surely as the child experiences the
pain of being made separate from its mother, so does the mother feel the child’s pain as
if her own. And in this way, Ash and Elm knew the suffering of others. In that, so did
Ash and Elm know the difference between right and wrong and so did they know sin.
For there is no sin in the tormenting of a mouse by a cat because the cat does not know
that it is wrong. Not knowing its pain, how could it? But humanity, the descendents of
Ash and Elm, would never be able to so much as look at the cat tormenting the mouse
without feeling the pain of the mouse.
So Ash and Elm knew they would not cause unneeded suffering because they would
suffer as well. They would not toy with a mouse, as does the cat, simply for sport, un-
aware of the suffering incurred as the cat is unaware of the suffering inflicted. Where
others may well say that the eating of that fruit may have been original sin, it certainly
was not. The eating of the fruit was not sin; sin is the ongoing action and inaction that
humanity commits having full knowledge that it is wrong. Some call this knowledge of
right and wrong, good and evil, a conscience.The First Praise of Our Lord and Lady
And when these new creatures spoke, they spoke the new names. To Sky, they
spoke the word Father, and to Earth they spoke the word Mother. And so in respect
for our line, so do we also call to these as Sky Father and Earth Mother. To their
children, Mother Earth and Father Sky spoke, telling them that they were twice born.
Plants were born of Summer and Winter. Animals were born of Earth and Sky. But
humanity was born of Summer and Winter, as Ash and Elm, and then reborn of Earth
and Sky, as Humanity. To them they also warned that while they would indeed fall and
rise as do the plants of the Earth, they would one day die.You were born of Summer and Winter
Then reborn of Earth and Sky
This is your blessing and your fate
That one day you will surely dieIt was not long before their study of the first order of life found there was a cycle to
things. Although it seemed at first on the surface that plants grew in the Light Half of
the year and died during the Dark Half of the year, it was clear that after the darkest
day of the year but before the first of Summer, there was a time in which the first
sprouts had begun to break their shell. This they called the first Cross Quarter because
it crossed the quarters set by the division of Winter and Summer, as well as the division
made by the Earth’s travel. And so it went that Ash and Elm would mark a second,
third, and fourth Cross Quarter based on their study of the orders of life that had come
before them. From this was observed the solar calendar.h WB Chap 01.p65 49 7/11/2003, 5:48 PM