Join me in the Great Work

Healing the world through a Focused Life

It is time to stop preparing and to get the work started. I’ve been posting a lot about what the work could and should be, but I am not set up to get the work started.

What have I been doing?

For the last several months, I have added all of my notes, essays, poems, prayers, rituals, and sermons into Obsidian, a note taking and second brain app that helps to organize and visualize all of your notes, and find the connections between them. These collections are called Vaults.

Here is what my Creation’s Paths vault looks like:

Each of those dots is a note, essay, poem, prayer, ritual, and sermon I have written over the last 30 years. The lines are how they are interconnected with each other. As you can see, not all of them have been interconnected, and that will have to happen overtime, but this isn’t just a benefit to me.

Thanks to their Publish feature, many of these notes, essays, poems, prayers, rituals, and sermons are now available to you, with more going up over time!

The Return of Wisdom’s Cry

All of these are now available on WisdomsCry.com! This is the website I ran before I started Creation’s Paths, and I have repurposed it to be the home of my Obsidian Publish Vault. I am adding and editing the content on this site all the time and you can see the most recent changes in the Change Log.

Wisdom’s Cry will not be a static website. As I learn more, new pages will be added and existing pages will be updated or rewritten. I am also mirroring the work I post here their and it will be updated and incorporated into the rest of the work there.

I hope you all like this site and can’t wait to dig into all this together.

Wisdom’s Cry will also have some of my longer essays that don’t make sense to send out as a newsletter, such as:

The Great Work

Over the last month, I’ve written a mammoth 4,081 word essay on the Great Work. I start with the definitions and idea presented by Elephas Levi in his book Transcendental Magic Its Doctrine and Ritual, as translated by A. E. Waite. I feel like most of the modern use of the term derives from this work and has passed through a game of telephone to get to the ones used today.

What is the Great Work?

First and foremost, the Great Work is the creation of the human by themself. It is the full and entire assumption of control of their faculties and their future, especially the perfect emancipation of their will.

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Through Discipline and Discipleship, Practice, and Mindfulness, we learn to examine ourselves, learning who and what we are, applying names to the different aspects of our identity, vocation, and aspirations.

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The Great Work we are called to do is everything from creating the best version of ourselves to the co-creation of the world in concert with the Divine. Each of us will have our own vocation, which we will continually discern throughout our lives.

My Great Work article on Wisdom’s Cry

For me, the Great Work is the ultimate aim of the spiritual, mystical, creative, and prophetic life. The elements of the work are different for everyone and the process helps us to discern our vocation and to set out on the path to perform that work.

There is no small vocation. Too many of us feel we have to save the world. What we have to learn is our part in it. No one person will bring peace, end climate change, or end poverty, but we all have a part to play. It is not for me or anyone else to tell anyone what their part is. The process of the Great Work helps us to discern our calling and to equip us with the tools we need to do the work.

The essay goes into my understanding of the process and gives examples from my own life. It is a good place to start in understanding this idea and what it can mean for us today.

Join me in the Great Work

Now that my public work has truly begun, I would like you to join me in discerning what you are called to do. I hope that together we can bring a great change to the world.