The Celtic Holidays

Ivernian Church of Alberta

Respecting Wisdom Applied:

Twig

 

  1. Three things of which everything is capable, and without which nothing can be:
    1. strength of body and mind
    2. knowledge
    3. love of intuitive wisdom.
  2. Three things which may not be opposed:
    1. nature
    2. necessity
    3. decay.
  3. Three who are hard to believe:
    1. a wanderer from afar
    2. the reader of a book in a strange tongue
    3. they who are older than their neighbors.
  4. Three who it is wise not to believe:
    1. the stranger about their possessions
    2. an old person praising the day that was of yore
    3. one who boasts of their wisdom.
  5. There are three concords which uphold all things:
    1. concord of love and justice
    2. concord of truth and imagination
    3. concord of the Mighty Ones and occurrence.
  6. Three words of counsel from Teilo the Draoi:
    1. know thy power
    2. know thy wisdom
    3. know thy time.
  7. Three people who will please the Mighty Ones:
    1. they who love everything living with their whole heart
    2. they who love every beautiful thing with their whole strength
    3. they who seek every knowledge with their whole understanding.
  8. Three things between which there is great difference:
    1. what is praised and what is forgiven
    2. what is forgiven and what is suffered
    3. what is suffered and what is not punished.

Contents
1. Preface 22. Respecting The Bad Home
2. An Omnium Gatherum 23. Pertaining To The Fili'
3. Respecting Excellence 24. Pertaining To Contracts And Agreements
4. Respecting The Conscientious Person 26. Good Health And Bad.
5. Respecting The Rewards Of Excellence 27. Advisements Of Prudence
6. Origins Of Wrong Doing 28. Respecting The Order Of Nature
7. Respecting Those Gone Amiss 29. Respecting The Nature Of Humankind
8. The Profits Of Those Who Have Gone Amiss 30. Respecting Action
9. Respecting Wealth And Poverty 31. Respecting Knowledge
10. Miscellaneous Wisdom 32. Respecting Wisdom
11. The Order Of Society 33. Respecting Those Who Are Wise
12. The Underpinnings Of Society 34. Respecting The Fool And Their Inanity
13. The Banes Of Society 35. Respecting Wisdom Applied
14. Respecting Land And Husbandry 36. Respecting Ambitions And The Roads To Success
15. The Respectable Citizen 37. Respecting Friendship
16. The Nocuous Citizen 38. Respecting Happiness
17. Respecting Legacies 39. Respecting Philosophy
18. Monitorial Advisements 40. Respecting Warriors
19. Manifold Blessings And Beneficence 41. Respecting The True Human
20. Respecting Etiquette 42. Respecting Spirituality
21. Respecting The Good Home  
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