To Hear His Piping

The following is written by Matthew and was first shared on the Facebook page Panopolis: Forum of the Great God Pan.

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I've been thinking over Pan in the Homeric sense, a god of place and particular people, and in the Orphic sense as the god of "All", implied in His name. Pan has been physical and personified, iconic, allegorical, incorporeal, or invisible and speaking to mortals only through mystery.

Later authors, it seems, have even gone on to equate Pan with the Christian G_d in the shape of Father and Son. Some have called Him a tutelary deity, along with other gods merely a misunderstanding of the Divine. Others have drawn parallels with the Adversary, that He and other gods were only cloaks, disguises meant to deceive humans and lead them away from the Divine.

Finding Platonic "Truth" seems a difficult outcome, shrouded in too many layers of mystery. Perhaps that's the point, though, not really to know, but rather to search after. Maybe that's what it means to hear His piping.

See also the previous posts:
• Pan, Moonlight and Magnolias
• The Divine Masculine Principle

And on The Leveret's brother site, The Wild Reed, see:
• The Piper at the Dates of Dawn
• The Devil We (Think We) Know
• Pan's Labyrinth: Critiquing the Cult of Unquestioning Obedience
• Meeting (and Embodying) the Lover God
• Beloved and Antlered

Image 1: Photographer unknown.
Image 2: Todd Yeager.