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Updated: May 29, 2025
And I answered, "The All-Father meant neither you nor your children to devour your brethren. Why do you not break up more waste ground? Why do you not try to grow more corn in your fields?" And they answered, "We till the ground as our forefathers did: we will keep to the old traditions."
Speechlessly the Æsir and the Vanir watched with tears streaming down their faces while all things lamented, crying, "Baldur the Beautiful is dead, is dead." And what was it that Odin All-Father whispered to Baldur as he bent above him with the flames of the burning ship around?
They dreamed, I say, at moments of a new and a better world, new men, new gods: but how were they to come? Who would live when all things died? Was there not somewhere an All- Father, who had eternal life? Then they looked round upon the earth, those simple-hearted forefathers of ours, and said within themselves, Where is the All- Father, if All-Father there be?
He knew the length and breadth of the earth, and the secrets of the sea, and the language of the stars. And every day he talked with Odin the All-Father, and with the wise and good in the sunlit halls of Gladsheim. Right gladly did Siegfried agree to sail with Bragi over the sea; for he wot that the bright Asa-god would be a very different guide from the cunning, evil-eyed Regin.
His theory is that robbery is all right so long as the people do not rebel thereby imperiling the system by which they are despoiled. From his fashionable pulpit and sumptuous home he hurls forth his anathema-maranatha at those who would presume to abridge the prescriptive rights of the plutocracy who doubt that grinding penury in a land bursting with fatness is pleasing to the All-Father!
It was, indeed, as the Rev. C. E. Beeby says, in his book Creed and Life, a sad mistake of St. Augustine to tack this tribal fetish in his box on to the Christian religion as the All-Father, and Creator of the Universe. For Jehovah was a savage war-god, and, as such, was impotent to save the tribe who worshipped him.
"Take it to the great All-Father as the best gift of his humble earth-workers." "Make me now a present for Frey the gentle," said Loki. "I owe my life to him; and I have promised to take him a swift steed that will bear him everywhere."
Have you not, besides, had dreams of an all-Father from whom, in some mysterious way, all things and beings must derive their source, and that Son if my theory be true among the rest, and above all the rest? 'Who has not? But what more dim or distant more drearily, hopelessly notional, than that thought? 'Only the thought that there is none. But the dreariness was only in your own inconsistency.
"I cannot live without Gerda," he said, as he turned away. There was one in Asgard who was called Skirnir. He was a venturesome being who never cared what he said or did. To no one else but Skirnir could Frey bring himself to tell of the trouble that had fallen on him the trouble that was the punishment for his placing himself on the seat of the All-Father.
In heaven there will be no business, and we shall have to adore His works there, not the works of our own hands." "Thou hast a subtle tongue, dear one, and what thou sayest seems to have an accent from a finer world. I am at times sore at loss " "Thou must believe in a kindly All-father and the eyes of thy inner soul will be opened."
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