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The Wolf a tale for our time by A. Roz Mar

Chapter 1

Ancient Wisdom was first told by oral tradition that became myths and legends then further evolved to the written word. Such are the Grimm's Fairy Tales, Kinder - Und Hausmarchen in the original Germanic. In the tale of Little Red Cap that is nowadays called Little Red Riding Hood is a story worth re-telling for contemporary times. These are tales meant to instilla mood whereimages arise in the soul to give insight into its deeper secrets inherent in Wisdom and feel itsMagic.

The tale of Little Red Cap is about the waking of human passion and Desire. There are many kinds of Desires. In the storyit manifests asthe seductive Wolf but also the young waking soul of Little Red Cap. Desire can be about love or wealth or all one dreams of, eventhe desire to be "fairest of them all."

Through stages of innocence, ignorance, doubt and moments of inspiration we unfold on the path of our individual Destiny. In this lies the foundation for our courage, strength and steadfastness of purpose in the face of temptation or adversity. With innocence comes an element of fearlessness since we are yet to learn the ways of the world and ourselves.

As soon as Little Red Cap entered the forest, she encountered the Wolf. However, Little Red Cap did not know what a wicked sort of animal he was and was not afraidof him. The Wolf thought to himself, this tender young thing is a juicy morsel. She'll taste even better than the old woman.

Why is Little Red Cap not afraid? It is because 'innocence' is the realm of the unknown. Until we have life experience as we begin ourjourneyto Grandmother's house, the Realm of Ancient Wisdom, we accept things as they are, trusting in what comes. Trust is our only protection when we leave the house of our Mother, the one whom we trust. Through life experiences good and badwe leave the warmth of the Madonna's Cloak wherein we grow until age seven when we first step out into the world beyond her. When we leave home to start school it leads through the woods where we explore and come to know the outer world in its newness but is in truth the soul's ongoing life history that like a river flows on from life to life.

The Wolf says to Little Red Cap:

"Little Red Cap, just look at the beautiful flowers that are growing all around you! Why don't you look around? I believe you haven't even noticed how lovely the birds are singing. You march along as if you were going straight to school, and yet it's so delightful out here in the woods!"

Little Red Cap looked around and saw how the rays of the sun were dancing through the trees back and forth and how the woods were full of beautiful flowers.

So she ran off the path and plunged into the woods to look for flowers. Each time she plucked one she saw another even prettier flower and ran after it, going deeper and deeper into the forest.

It is a cautionary tale about the dangers on the road of experience that is full of enchantment and challenges of which Little Red Cap is about to begin to encounter when she meets the Wolf.But the Wolf is also within her when she starts to reason her way deeper into the woods:

If I bring Grandmother a bunch of fresh flowers, she'd certainly like that. It's still early, and I'll arrive on time.

The path we travel to Wisdom is a schoolhouse. The outcome of the experiences we have are the seeds of learningnot often understoodat the moment of events but comes to our knowingin the future. We are always evolving and becoming but never are; a tenet Plato taught his students:

'In my opinion we must distinguish between what is but never becomes, from what is continually becoming butnever is.'

What is meant is that the former is like a stone while that which is "always becoming but never is" is man himself. While Little Red Cap goes deeper into the forest the Wolf hurries to Grandmother's house.

Then he went straight to the Grandmother's bed without saying a word and gobbledher up. Next he put on her clothes and her nightcap, lay down in her bed, and drew the curtains.

There is an important element told early in the tale when the Wolf asks what she is carrying beneath her apron.

"Cake and wine. My Grandmother's sick and weak, and yesterday we baked this so it will help her get well."

We might ask why Grandmother is 'sick and weak, we answer by saying that ifwe either forget or ignore our conscience, and desire too much, we weaken the inspiration of Wisdom and Magic that is the legacy of our humanness. If lost to usthen we becomesick and weak as happens when nations and peoples are warring, andlike Little Red Cap, the innocent are sacrificed. There is duty to our self but also to the higher worlds from whence we come where Wisdom, Spirit and Morality are the life blood of its existence. Cake is the sweetness of life and wine enlivens the blood but if we take too much either one intoxicates and we risk losing our way. Sweetness and toxicityare two sides of the same coin. Such opposites are key to our awakening. All that comes into existence can only do so through the polarity of opposites.

Mother in the story represents the newest path to Spiritual Wisdom appropriate to the current age in which we live but she is still the Sophia of Ancient Wisdom; the Eternal Feminine of all mankind destined to recall her whether or not we are aware of it.

When Little Red Cap arrives at her Grandmother's house we hear her say:

"Oh Grandmother, what big ears you have!"

"The better to hear you with."

"Oh Grandmother what big hands you have!"

"The better to grab you with."

"Oh Grandmother, what a terribly big mouth you have!"

"The better to eat you with!"

No sooner did the wolf say that than he jumped out of bed and gobbled up poor Little Red Cap. After the wolf had satisfied his desires,he lay down in bed, fell asleep, and began to snore very loudly.

The Huntsman then enters the story. On passing by Grandmother's house he hears her loudly snoring thinking something may be wrong. He goes into her room and sees the Wolf lying in her bed.

"So I've found you at last, you old sinner," said the huntsman. "I've been looking for

you for a long time."

He starts to shoot him with his gun but then stops, realizing the Wolf could have eaten the Grandmother and that she could still be saved. So he took out some scissors and cut open the Wolf's belly where he frees her but then seeing the shining red cap he frees the girl who exclaimed,

"Oh how frightened I was, it was so darkin the Wolf's belly!"

The theme of the story is made clear. The Wolf 'had satisfied his desires' by gobbling up Little Red Cap; the Huntsman calls the Wolf "you old sinner" and Little Red Cap says, "it was so dark" in the Wolf's belly; dark to mean how Desire can blind us. The human brain is an organ whose primary function is to perceive the physical sensory world outside of us, connecting percepts to our senses that illicit concepts. The rapid change in modern societies that has come about in our time through digital technology has spread all over the world and is none other than the cleverly disguised Wolf of devouring Materialism. The "sins" of the world all have to do with the hardened materializing of man himself which caused the Divine World Order to intervene over two thousand years ago to change man's direction on his path to freedom.

Little Red Cap greedily goes from "flower to flower" lusting after the sensations they stir. Woven into the story are the Seven Deadly Sins that are Pride, Envy, Wrath, Lust, Greed aka Avarice, Gluttony and Sloth. We meet the charismatic character of the Wolf, the awakener of desire. Pride has given strength and confidence in his abilities. When he encounters Little Red Cap it stirs in him Envy of her innocence. Greed, the urge to want more is brother to Gluttony, the insatiable need to devour. Wrath or Anger that underlies the Wolf's aggression makes him gobble-up Grandmother then Little Red Cap. Self-satisfied after he does such wicked deeds he gives-way to Sloth, laziness. Lazy sloth puts him to sleep and leads to his downfall when the Huntsman hears him snoring.

The Wolf is the external image of Little Red Cap's desires that are present in all of us. Leaving home, we enter a world of enchantment. The Red Cap that symbolizes human passion excites the child into going off the path in her desire to "see the flowers" that leads her deeper into the woods.

The story of Little Red Cap creates images pictured in the Soul to awaken its hidden Wisdom in you and invokes the warm feeling of Magic through the telling.

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