"The True Meaning of Inspiration" ((Inuyoko Mass #7))
Hello everyone. Thank you for coming to my Mass this sun. My name is Inuyoko T'Alveni, I am a Priestess of this Shrine since Deoch 53. My Mass today is a bit shorter than the ones I usually write, so feel free to breathe a sigh of relief if
you've been to one of my lect-- I mean Masses before hehe.
What is the true nature of inspiration? Does it lie in the creator, the subject, or the muse? Can a person be inspired in a vacuum? These aren't necessarily easy questions to answer and indeed, perhaps there isn't one right amswer. But we can develop a sense of what inspiration is by seeing Deoch's story as a reflection of our own. It has been a running theme in my Masses that our gift as Aislings is that we are a reflection of the gods. We may think of them as powerful, alien beings, and in many ways they are, but what could be more familiar to use than love? Than finding one's self going down a dark path and being saved by it? Being compelled to create and improve by camaraderie, compassion, and idolatry? We are blessed by Sgrios with the ability to face the darkness and return to the grey, but death is still an inevitability. And yet, we stare it in the face and laugh at its awesome power as we lay claim to our time. Writing, playing, questing, and loving.
Deoch did the same. He sought power, and served darkness. He reclaimed his time and his destiny and he was overcome with rapture and inspiration by the passion of Danaan. From them, it is said we were given the powers of light, but the true gift is that invisible, untamable energy that we get from each other. Oh, how a simple conversation can lead us to new perspectives! How simply speaking our thoughts aloud to another can cause us to suddenly come upon that knowledge or thought we had been seeking! How simply looking into the eyes of women I have loved has made me want to sing, and music within want to burst out of me.
The ideals that Deoch represents, and that we embody are the cornerstone of everything else. Without inspiration, propped up by the reality of life and death and the power of Aisling love and compassion, nothing else matters. Not knowledge, not law, not conflict. So what is the nature of inspiration? It is all of this. It is a circuitous essence that exists within each of us, because if it didn't, then we simply would not be. It is a resource that flows between all three: creator, subject, muse, in a cycle that is only as endless as humanity will be. The only question that remains is: how will you choose to embrace it?
Mass is cast.
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