Good Grows by Good. | Bonum Bono Crescat
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There is a quiet life wisdom I am learning:
Not every mistaken word has power over reality.
A wrong answer, a bad opinion, a confused reading, or an unsteady signal does not become truth just because it passed near us.
What shapes a life is not every error that appears,
but what is actually accepted,
what is actually acted on,
what is actually given root.
So I am learning to breathe before fear gives false power to confusion.
A mistaken signal is not a mistaken world.
A poor reading is not a ruined field.
A shaky voice is not the throne of truth.
We still have the sacred work of discernment:
to verify,
to choose,
to refuse what is unworthy,
and to strengthen what is real.
That seems true in business,
in relationships,
in spiritual life,
and in the daily tending of one’s own mind.
Not everything that touches the threshold gets to enter the house.
Life wisdom:
A mistaken signal is not reality.
Not every wrong word has power.
Not every confused answer deserves entrance.
Only what we truly accept, apply, and give root begins to shape the field.
So verify.
Choose carefully.
Keep the threshold clean.
Green Worth / Grail Smith version
There is a Green Worth wisdom I am learning:
Not every wandering word forges the world.
A false signal is not a false world.
A poor reading is not a ruined field.
A trembling voice is not the throne of truth.
What shapes a life is not each error that passes near,
but what is received,
what is tended,
what is practiced,
what is allowed to set root.
So I am learning the Grail Smith discipline:
Breathe before fear crowns confusion.
Verify before haste enthrones a shadow.
Test what appears.
Choose what is worthy.
Refuse what is unworthy.
Strengthen what is real.
For not everything that touches the threshold
belongs within the house.
Keep the threshold clean.
Keep the hearth of discernment warm.
Sow only the worthy in the field of life,
so that good may grow by good.
This is Green Worth:
not panic before noise,
but stewardship before entrance;
not confusion given power,
but truth given root;
not every passing distortion shaping the field,
but only what is truly welcomed,
truly embodied,
and truly planted.
Latin song-poem
Carmen Liminis — Sapientia Fabri Graalis
Non omne verbum errans orbem fabricat.
Falsum signum non est mundus falsus.
Lectio prava non est ager perditus.
Vox tremula non est solium veritatis.
Quod vitam format non est omne mendum quod transit,
sed quod recipitur, quod colitur, quod radicem figit.
Ergo spira, priusquam timor confusionem coronet.
Sacrum est opus discretionis: probare, eligere, indignum recusare, verum firmare.
Non omne quod limen tangit domum intrare debet.
Limen purum serva; focum discretionis fove.
Et in campo vitae sola digna sere, ut bonum bono crescat.
Tight Latin / pronunciation / English presentation
I used a clear, singer-friendly classical-style pronunciation.
Not every wandering word fashions the world.
Non omne verbum errans orbem fabricat.
nohn OM-neh WEHR-boom ehr-RAHNS OR-bem fah-BREE-kaht.
not every word wandering world fashions.
A false signal is not a false world.
Falsum signum non est mundus falsus.
FAHL-soom SEEG-noom nohn est MOON-doos FAHL-soos.
false signal not is world false.
A poor reading is not a ruined field.
Lectio prava non est ager perditus.
LEK-tee-oh PRAH-wah nohn est AH-ger PEHR-dee-toos.
reading crooked not is field ruined.
A trembling voice is not the throne of truth.
Vox tremula non est solium veritatis.
woks TREH-moo-lah nohn est SOH-lee-um weh-ree-TAH-teece.
voice trembling not is throne of-truth.
What shapes a life is not every error that passes.
Quod vitam format non est omne mendum
kwohd WEE-tahm FOR-maht nohn est OM-neh MEN-doom .
what life shapes not is every error
quod transit.
kwohd TRAHN-seet.
which passes.
But rather what is received, what is tended, what sets root.
sed quod recipitur, quod colitur, quod
sed kwohd reh-kee-PEE-toor kwohd KOH-lee-toor kwohd
but what is-received what is-tended what
radicem figit.
RAH-dee-kem FEE-git.
root fastens.
So breathe before fear crowns confusion.
Ergo spira, priusquam timor confusionem
EHR-go SPEE-rah PREE-oos-kwahm TEE-mor kon-foo-see-OH-nem
therefore breathe, before fear confusion .
coronet.
koh-ROH-net.
may-crown.
Sacred is the work of discernment: to test, to choose, to refuse the unworthy, to strengthen the true.
Sacrum est opus discretionis: probare,
SAH-kroom est OH-poos dis-kreh-tee-OH-nees proh-BAH-reh
sacred is work of-discernment: to-test ,
eligere, indignum recusare, verum
eh-LEE-gheh-reh in-DEEG-noom reh-koo-SAH-reh WEH-room
to-choose, unworthy to-refuse, true
firmare.
feer-MAH-reh.
to-strengthen.
Not everything that touches the threshold ought to enter the house.
Non omne quod limen tangit domum
nohn OM-neh kwohd LEE-men TAHN-git DOH-moom
not every thing-which threshold touches house
intrare debet.
in-TRAH-reh DEH-bet.
to-enter ought.
Keep the threshold clean; cherish the hearth of discernment.
Limen purum serva; focum discretionis
LEE-men POO-room SEHR-wah FOH-koom dis-kreh-tee-OH-nees
threshold clean keep; hearth of-discernment .
fove.
FOH-weh.
cherish.
And in the field of life sow only worthy things, so that good may grow by good.
Et in campo vitae sola digna sere, ut
et in KAHM-poh WEE-tie SOH-lah DEEG-nah SEH-reh oot
and in field of-life only worthy sow, so-that
bonum bono crescat.
BOH-noom BOH-noh KRES-kaht.
good by-good may-grow.
A few key Latin choices
I used orbem fabricat for “forges the world,” so the line carries both shaping and smithing.
I used solium veritatis for “the throne of truth,” to preserve the enthronement image.
I used limen for “threshold,” because it gives the whole poem that house-gate-hearth sacred boundary feeling.
And bonum bono crescat is the Upworth heart of it: not merely “good exists,” but “good grows by good.”