{"id":1797,"date":"2011-06-18T18:16:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T17:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.odinic-rite.org\/test\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2017-09-24T21:25:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T20:25:27","slug":"odinism-our-faith-heritage-and-identity-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/odinism-our-faith-heritage-and-identity-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"ODINISM &#8211; Our Faith, Heritage and Identity &#8211; Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_section-a10eaf5f121cd648636af8a8acb880d0\">\n.avia-section.av-av_section-a10eaf5f121cd648636af8a8acb880d0{\nbackground-repeat:no-repeat;\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bg-two.jpg);\nbackground-position:0% 0%;\nbackground-attachment:scroll;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-av_section-a10eaf5f121cd648636af8a8acb880d0 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll av-minimum-height av-minimum-height-25 av-height-25  container_wrap sidebar_right'  data-section-bg-repeat='no-repeat' data-av_minimum_height_pc='25' data-av_min_height_opt='25'><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1797'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-1b45e83bb961696c6cf5f5189c3b4f47\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-1b45e83bb961696c6cf5f5189c3b4f47{\npadding-bottom:10px;\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-1b45e83bb961696c6cf5f5189c3b4f47 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-1b45e83bb961696c6cf5f5189c3b4f47 .special-heading-inner-border{\nborder-color:#ffffff;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-1b45e83bb961696c6cf5f5189c3b4f47 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-1b45e83bb961696c6cf5f5189c3b4f47 av-special-heading-h1 custom-color-heading blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >ODINISM &#8211; Our Faith, Heritage and Identity &#8211; Part 4<\/h1><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1797'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-396ddf1f42196ca838231e61a4602801 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>by Heimgest DCG<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>First published in ORB No. 109, June 1991<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4567\" src=\"http:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/or-featured-hemgest-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/or-featured-hemgest-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/or-featured-hemgest.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The way forward for our Faith is not an easy one, but most worthwhile things are not easily obtained. Discipline and commitment are vital for any movement, spiritual, physical or mental; huge patience and perseverance are needed. Our path will not always be exciting or glamourous, \u00acwe are the road builders; we may not be the ones who later walk down that road in this life. We may be ridiculed or scorned, lies and smears may be made against us, and some of these may even come from those we trusted.<\/p>\n<p>We are the ones who must make the greatest sacrifices now &#8211; sacrifices of time, effort and money &#8211; so that our children, and their children, will benefit. But each sacrifice, each gift, receives a gift in return; maybe not wealth or fame, but a satisfaction that no gold could buy.<\/p>\n<p>There will be times of disillusion and frustration, because the restoration of our religion brings greater awareness with it. Suddenly it will seem more painful and enraging to see the ugliness around in our cities, the senseless cruelty, the ignorance, the destruction of land and folk. With deeper awareness come deeper troughs of gloom, but also higher peaks of elation.<\/p>\n<p>There may be times when we feel nearly crushed, with no strength to carry on; times when all seems doomed and hopeless. Then life can be bleak but we are not alone, \u00acthe spirits of our ancestors are with us, \u00acthe Gods are with us &#8211; we need only to look for them within ourselves, and around us, within nature. They bring the strength to overcome despair. Each of us has access to that strength; it is in our blood, our hearts, and our spirit.<\/p>\n<p>The practice of Odinism will not make problems vanish, but it gives us the will to face, and the strength to fight against and overcome them.<\/p>\n<p>With the restoration of our community to our Gods and Folk Soul comes an inner knowledge, of ourselves, of our place in the Multiverse, the knowledge of a divine spark within each of us. We see the manifestations of the God Forces everywhere, around and within us. We see them in the vast majesty of a northern forest, in a single blade of grass; we hear it in the roar off a stormy sea, and in a child\u2019s laughter. Whenever it manifests, we can recognise it.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, our path is sometime hard, but it is a noble way, and it is ours; OUR FAITH, OUR HERITAGE, OUR IDENTITY.<\/p>\n<p>We are of the Gods, and now is the time in which we have begun the restoration of the beauty of our Faith in Midgarth. It is we who hold the flame, we who must nurture the shoot. It is we who must show our Folk the way back to their true Faith &#8211; their spiritual birthright.<\/p>\n<p>Be uplifted then, for Odinists say &#8216;yes!&#8217; to life, and the high ones are with us.<\/p>\n<p>Hael to the Aesir &#8211; Hael to the Vanir!<br \/>\nHael to our faith, folk and families!<br \/>\nOdin&#8217;s people &#8211; stand firm!<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nRead the other articles in this series:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.odinic-rite.org\/test\/odinism-our-faith-heritage-and-identity-part-1\/\">Part 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.odinic-rite.org\/test\/odinism-our-faith-heritage-and-identity-part-2\/\">Part 2<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.odinic-rite.org\/test\/odinism-our-faith-heritage-and-identity-part-3\/\">Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Heimgest DCG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The way forward for our Faith is not an easy one, but most worthwhile things are not easily obtained. 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