for Jhon Longshaw
...the root of the word mystery lies in a secret
or hidden meaning, from the Old French mistere
and the Latin mysterium, "A secret rite, a secret
worship, or secret thing," and Greek mysterion,
a secret rite or doctrine, and deeper to mystes,
"one who has been initiated," in other words
a mystic, where the sense goes back to the Old
French mistique and to the Latin mysticus
One who has been initiated into being connected
with the mysteries, associated with sacraments,
exhibiting outward signs of an inward spiritual
grace, like the eucharist, being a consecration
and a mystery itself, in other words sacred,
which is to be made holy, in other words to be
kept intact, a thing that could not be transgressed
or violated, but kept whole, from Old English hal
"Entire, unhurt, healthy," where health is equated
to being whole, sound, or well, from Old English
willan, "to wish" arising from will, from Gothic
wiljan, "to will, wish, or desire," from Latin
desiderare "to long for, demand, or wait in
expectation for what the stars will bring,"
(de sidere), to consider (from Latin considerare)
the stars, what we now refer to as sidereal,
from Latin siderius, meaning "starry or astral,
of the constellations," from Latin astrum, star
Old English steorra, Old Norse stjarna, Greek
aster, Latin stella, performing the lead part,
the starring role, a part or character one takes,
the symbol or imprint on the soul, from Old English
sawol, "the spiritual and emotional part of a person;
animate existence, of uncertain origin, ancestry,
or race; from Old French origine, and Latin originem,
"a rise, commencement, beginning, or source through
descent, lineage, or birth, from Old Norse byrdr
"Birth, descent, race; offspring; nature; fate,"
from Latin fata "a prophetic declaration, oracle,
or prediction," the sentence of the gods, from Old
English wyrd, "fate, destiny", literally "that which
comes", Old Saxon wurd, which is also to turn,
and bend, from Old English weordan, to become,
and weirder yet from the root -wer, or versus,
from Latin versus, "turned toward or against"
Weorthan, what befalls one should he dare, from
Old English durran, "to brave danger; to venture,
presume," to risk the loss of a thing about to happen
by chance, fortune, or luck; once upon a time, all
these things described were one and the same,
and the weird thing today remains, that by turns
of phrase, they've slowly been flowering back into
secrecy turning once again into hidden mystery...
