We don't shoot or kill the cleric or
medic in the battlefield. They are not a part of the war. They work to
minimize the death and damage done by all sides of the war.
It is our obligation to be compassionate
to those who need it. It is our responsibility to overcome the limitations
of laws and languages to ensure for all people, true equality of civil
rights, religious freedoms and to forever hold sacred our planet and it's
finite resources.
Friendship is a
plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the
appellation.
- 1st President George Washington
When you were born, you cried and the world
rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you
rejoice. -
Cherokee
"It was supposed that lost spirits were roving about
everywhere in the invisible air, waiting for children to find them if
they searched long and patiently enough...[The spirit] sang its
spiritual song for the child to memorize and use when calling upon the
spirit guardian as an adult." - Mourning Dove [Christine Quintasket],
Salish
Treat the earth
well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by
your children. - Unknown
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for
it is not he that you wrong but yourself. -
Pima
Make my enemy brave and strong, so
that if defeated, I will not be ashamed. -
Plains
If a man is to do something more than
human, he must have more than human powers.
- Tribe Unknown
It is no longer good enough to cry
peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace. -
Shenandoah
We live, we die, and like the grass and
trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble
and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten but new beliefs are
born. The faith of the villages is dust now...but it will grow
again...like the trees. - Chief Joseph
The continuity of
practices and constructs of religious service - ceremonies - - by
American Indian people is remarkable. No lifeway or religion, of course,
no matter how traditional, can claim to be practiced exactly as it was
one or two or three hundred or a thousand years ago, in the context of
tribal culture and history.
Nevertheless, despite adaptations and change, many Native peoples
sustain practices and ceremonies around various traditions that directly
emerge from the long-standing history of tribal cross-culturalization
and ritual growth in the Americas.
Peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the
presence of justice -
Dr. Martin Luther King
To guide our congregation towards the
realization of world tolerance, peace and community involvement.
To promote inter-disciplinary cooperation and participation in the
proactive protection of Mother Earth, her peoples, resources and
wildlife. We are all children of the same creator and equally
responsible for the same earth.
To embed and imbue within our youth, solid family and community
values. Faith, family and community are the birthright and noble
responsibility of the children that inherit the earth. Blessed are
the children who seek out, in earnest, the truth.
To live and learn in a manner that is consistent with our
sincerely held spiritual beliefs and in accordance with our
conscience and the Divine Laws and Universal Truth of our people.
The media controls the way people think, act and react. We must
take great care, how much stock we place in corporations that make
outright lies to further private interests.
Long Term Use of Medical Marijuana Study concludes, no withdrawal
symptoms, no long term side effects, no depression symptoms,
includes MRI scans, EEG results, and much more done on FEDERAL
MEDICAL MARIJUANA patients.
A neurologist does an in depth medical study of Federal IND
patients who receive 300 joints per can a month from the Federal
Government. This video goes over the barrage of tests which the
patients were subjected to, the results, and what the UK is doing
for their patients.
As part of our healing mission, the Temple
will be presenting a plan to open a medical dispensary in Bangor,
Maine this Wednesday at 5pm at Bangor City Hall. Rev. Loring will
speak before the Government Operations Committee chaired by Mr.
Hal Wheeler.
Wisdom of the Elders
"If you
talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each
other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what
you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys." -
Chief Dan George
"I am a red man. If the Great Spirit
had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the
first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, in my
heart he put other and different desires. Each man is good in his
sight. It is not necessary for Eagles to be Crows. We are poor..but
we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must
die...we die defending our rights." - Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa
Sioux
“The old
Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its
place on the earth anything that may be growing there. It may be cut
off, but it should not be uprooted. The trees and the grass have
spirits. Whatever one of such growth may be destroyed by some good
Indian, his act is done in sadness and with a prayer for
forgiveness because of his necessities...” - Wooden Leg (late 19th
century)
Cheyenne
All plants are our brothers and
sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them. -
Arapaho
Man has responsiblity, not
power. - Tuscarora
"The
American Indian is of the soil,
whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits
into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also
fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the
wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the
buffalo
belonged...." - Luther Standing Bear, Oglala
Sioux Chief
"Everything
on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and
every person a mission. This is the
Indian theory of existence." - Mourning Dove [Christine
Quintasket] (1888-1936) Salish
“A very great vision is needed and
the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest
blue of the sky.” -
Crazy
Horse,
Sioux Chief
"The Great Spirit is in all things.
He is in the air we breathe. The Great Spirit is our Father, but the
Earth is our Mother. She nourishes us.....That which we put into the
ground she returns to us." -
Big Thunder (Bedagi)
Wabanaki Algonquin
"Children were encouraged to develop
strict discipline and a high regard for sharing. When a girl picked
her first berries and dug her first roots, they were given away to
an elder so she would share her future success. When a child carried
water for the home, an elder would give compliments, pretending to
taste meat in water carried by a boy or berries in that of a girl.
The child was encouraged not to be lazy and to grow straight like a
sapling." -Mourning Dove [Christine Quintasket] (1888-1936) Salish
"So live your life that the fear of death can
never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect
others in their view and demand that they respect yours." - Chief
Tecumseh
"Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the
wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision." - Chief
Tecumseh
About the founder...
Tell a friend about the temple!
Rev. Kevin Loring founded the Temple
is 2005 with their first official meeting. The Temple has grown
exponentially ever since.
Rev. Loring is a card carrying member of the Penobscot
Indian Nation. Working daily for the liberation of his congregation and
towards world peace through the advancement of religious freedom and
civil rights.
His views and teachings are the result of his
life experiences
with the tribe but do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of
the Penobscot Tribal Government.
Temple Wins Church Web Site Award!
A big thanks goes out to ChurchSeek.net from all the hard working
volunteers at TempleGreen.org!
Definition of Religion
Web Partners
What is the definition of religion?
Throughout history it has defined both nations and the principles of
moral values. In many religions throughout the world, many of the
inspirations and founding principles are brought forth by a single
person or deity who has a vastly contrasting opinion to popular beliefs,
hope for a better future, and a plan. Popular Religion and governments
are usually structured in much the same way and are much more organized
than ever before in history but does this change the way in which a
religion or theology is born? Do the beliefs of the one, constitute a
religion if they are held sincerely? Should we aid growing religions
that may have drastically different ideas about the world just because
our ideas and ways of life conflict?
There was the universe. Then
there was Mother Earth. She brought forth all manner of animal and
plant life in pure intent. Then she created people. People spread
across the land in wondrous variety but without direction. It was
then that Mother Earth planted a Seed within the hearts and minds of
the people. The Seed took root and grew into the Pure One. The Pure
One is the mirrored perfection of our Enlightened Mind, Divine and
all powerful, all knowing in His knowledge of Universal Truth. The
Pure One is the Teacher of the People and Protector of Mother Earth.
Mother Earth then created the Tree of Wisdom and the Tree of Life.
The Tree of Wisdom was given freely to the people as a Divine Tool
of great spiritual power, as a tool for prayer and meditation, as a
bridge for the Sacred Communion of People and for the healing of all
nations. The Word of the Teacher transforms and heals the soul when
empowered by the Tree. The people tasted the Tree of Wisdom and were
freely given all knowledge but in segments broken by language and
time. The Pure One and Mother Earth hid the Tree of Life and sent
people out of Mother Earth’s beautiful garden with a simple promise.
If the people could learn the lessons of Universal Truth and
overcome the barriers of language and time, then the Pure One would
take people back to the Gates of Mother Earth’s Garden. People would
then partake the Tree of Life and live forever, united by their
differences, in a Heaven of world peace.
The Pure One has given us lessons in all tongues and through many
many messengers. Mother Earth has given us the Tree of Wisdom to
unlock the Universal Truths from the Pure One’s puzzle. The Tree
unlocks the Word. The Word
transforms the soul. Misplace the Word and be corrupted.
The People and the Eagle.. The
Present
The people are now starting to understand their unique spiritual nature
in more profound ways. The Eagle has collected the varied languages
and guides the people in learning the lessons of time. They strive
with purest intent to unlock the gates of world peace. Each feather
of the Eagle is a representation of world's languages, beliefs and
dreams. Pluck but one and the Eagle will suffer and its flight will
be untrue. The people are drawn to the power of the Eagle and
together, united by their uncommon differences, they walk towards
the Garden's Gate in search of world peace.
But the plaques are upon us. Drug abuse, Intolerance and the
Destruction of Mother Earth. These are the disciples of Greed. Greed
is a dark demon of tremendous power, an ancient enemy of the Pure
One, discarded and disregarded by Universal Truth. Mother Earth has
always provided for her children, thus there is no need for Greed.
Greed threatens to strip Mother Earth of her resources and makes
hollow promises to the hearts and minds of people.
The Eagle too has grown large, some feathers are bigger than others
or have been with the Eagle longer and their influence on the Eagle
is strong. This adds only delay in the journey to the Gate. The Pure
One must send a new message of love, unity and faith to guide the
Eagle and the people to true redemption. The Seed has grown deep
roots and must struggle to send the One Voice that may bring light
to our path, the children of the Nations and Religions of Mother
Earth. Only the children can learn from the mistakes of their
parents and seek out in earnest the truth. Blessed are the children.
THE FIRST AMENDMENT
CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR
PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF: OR ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH,
OR OF THE PRESS; OR THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE, AND TO
PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES.
