We Are Pagan
We dwell in the Living World
Stars, oceans, rivers, mountains,
each have their own being and integrity
Each is worth preserving,
not as a resource but as a living being,
albeit non-biological
For all of the world is ensouled;
feeling, and self-preserving as we are,
and although not human, it all deserves our respect
For we are not separate from the world,
we participate in it and through it
So does the World participate in us,
and its well-being is our own
For we revere Nature
like Jews, Christians, and Muslims revere their scriptures,
because Nature is our scripture
For however various our views,
whether seen as the most ancient and developed technology
or as most intimately as ‘Mother Nature,’
we Pagani see Nature as Divine
The Divine is the source and sum of our being.
To consume Nature will be the end of our being,
and the final blasphemy
We are Pagan,
We dwell in the Living World
What do you live in?