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Part II of the 'Matters Spiritual & Secular' essay is taking an impressive amount of time to do properly, as it should: it's not as if those requiring everything in memes and soundbytes will know what to do with that anyway!

In the meantime, I am expressly assured that it's very important I share here this consultation with the goddess Αθηνα from my own spiritual practice. I'm *extremely* reticent when it comes to revealing these things so 'publicly' (yes, this 200-odd-subscriber telegram channel counts as public in this context) for several reasons. Revealing sacred things to the profane (not necessarily talking about any particular readers, but again, 'public') nearly always results in ill even with the best intentions. Even to a spiritual audience, a given spirit's or deity's manner of expression to me on a particular topic will tend to be most tailored to me in the context of my understanding/maturity/experience/lack thereof, and can lead to (innocent) gaps in full contact with the transmission.
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