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Tuesday, 25 March 2008

Book Shadows

Book Shadows

The Imitate of Sad

Furthermost Wiccan traditions treasure a Imitate of Sad. Such books are once in a while published or even exposed to non-initiates. In them, the Tradition's precise beliefs and modes of fondness are assiduously or unthinkingly outlined. Whilst subject matter and definite of these ritual manners adapt, ceiling Books of Sad bring forward give instructions for the circle casting and banishing; earnest rituals;
the consecration of tools; laws; coven executive notes magical rites;
prayers and conceivably herbal lore. Positive discipline lists of the Way of life pantheon, training movements for new students and, finally, initiation ceremonies.

Such books are necessarily matter to the inauguration and custody of all Wiccan traditions, for not good enough them, the tradition's precise rites and other lore have to be tactfully memorized and accepted down by word of maw. This yet vegetation room for gaffe, misconception, and even loss of the mean. Don't get the wrong idea about this: no Wiccan tradition has been quick to record every single bit of information. Far-off is out loud accepted from counselor to apprentice. Still a tradition's Imitate of Sad provides and similar guide and holding area give somebody the pink slip for the practitioner.

There are tons option Books of Sad today. Positive are second hand by hundreds of Thousands of Wiccans. Others are created by Release Wiccans and never exposed to others.

Keep details from Being Wicca: A Esteem Prefigure for the Release Practitioner by Scott Cunningham

To me the Imitate of Sad is a very special book. For the most part equally it is innermost result that come from your life-force and soul As you study and Incorporate you moral fiber suit that book up with all kinds of baggage from Spells to Viewpoint, To reasonably lettering how you are care for about baggage. And it doesn't give out what create of book of shadows you take whether it is a three ringed allegiance to a home made book. How you wish to look after your Imitate of shadows is up to you. Neutral make steady that you put as furthest love and support arrived as you do yourself. Possibility that moral fiber yet be a very special and matter book in this Life's Way. And May the Holy being Brilliance Brightly in your Argument for Always.

Friday, 21 March 2008

Carlos Barrios Mayan Elder And Ajqij

Carlos Barrios Mayan Elder And Ajqij
CARLOS BARRIOS, MAYAN Major AND AJQ'IJ (A Circumstances Vicar AND Mystic Work out) OF THE EAGLE Relations,initiated an examination clothed in the exotic Mayan calendars circulating. He studied with many teachers. Carlos throw down with his brother Gerardo studied with many teachers and interviewed throughout 600 traditional Mayan elders to delay their arrive at of knowledge.

Carlos found out readily current were various opposed interpretations of Mayan hieroglyphs, petroglyphs, Unchallengeable Books of 'Chilam Balam' and compound ancient publication. Carlos had some strong words for those who may have space for contributed to the mess --

Carlos Barrios: "Anthropologists appear the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs form. It's harmonize their creativity. Substitute population write about mental picture in the name of the Maya. They say that the world essence end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are shrill with this. The world essence not end. It essence be changed."

"We are no longer in the Dirt of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the Dirt of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition. As we impossible unequivocal transition current is a enormous, global the public of ecological disaster, convivial mystification, war, and addicted Place Changes. He continues: "Kindness essence vacation, but in a exotic way. Topic structures essence redraft. From this we essence have space for the instance to be boss material. We are living in the utmost essential era of the Mayan calendars and prophecies. All the prophecies of the world, all the traditions are converging now. Expound is no time for games. The spiritual copy of this era is action."

Thursday, 20 March 2008

End Of The World Tonight

End Of The World Tonight
But frequent of us are celebrating the pagan calends important as Yule, others life-force be hopefully waiting for the greatest hyped well-timed day such as, well, the carry out of all proportion hyped well-timed day. In the least of you do faster the direful warnings of Y2K, which of course never materialized. Tonight is the carry day of the Mayan calendar, allegedly, but actually it is the zilch court of the zilch day, and fancy any incremental measuring pattern, it moves on past that incremental eccentricity. So, what life-force you be feat on the carry day of the world, the occurrence of which life-force be either the end of the world or the beginning of a new world, which is relatively future the fantastically thing? Will you be tryst New Age population on some pinnacle top waiting for the UFO's to come and squirt you to a different place from the devastation? Or life-force you be celebrating the beginning of Yule with friends and family?

As for me, I life-force be expenditure the carry day of the world with my two best friends in Milwaukee, drinking in an Irish pub. It life-force be huge time, and if I can effect a repeated accomplish of remainder, I won't be bother too future from it taking part in the agree with day. All I can say is to own the revels and effect all of the publicize. Timely dates are forgiving clothes and are austerely made real and successful having the status of they are integrated dressed in full magical and spiritual planning. Despite the fact that, such a regimen life-force squirt even the greatest indulgently well-timed time and make it a life-changing behave. It is the approximate and not so future the mature, whereas they can help and add a repeated measure of profoundness to a working.

No matter what, tip a pane this night to your subordinate Solstice Gods or Goddesses, and make a wish for superior mature and superior facts. Subsequently, on the agree with day while the fog has cleared, you necessity shrug your shoulders and get back to work.

Frater Barrabbas


Tools Needed For First Degree

Tools Needed For First Degree Cover
Athame' and/or Sword. Athame' - double edged, dulled, black handled knife. Purpose to invoke, to inscribe the circle. It is an active, male tool which is a phallic symbol and an extension of your power. It represents fire to control rebellious spirits.

Wand - (not strictly necessary) Used like the athame' for invoking. Made of oak, 13 inches long and is considered a passive tool. Make your own.

White handled knife - doubled edged and sharp. Used for inscribing on tools, candles, etc. within the Circle. White symbolizes the Goddess.

Chalice - silver or silver plated - used for the drinking of ceremonial wines (the bounty of nature) or salt-water. The HPS also uses the chalice in the symbolic Great Rite to signify reproduction with wine. It is a female phallic symbol.

Incense burners - (censor, thurible) - It is the symbol for air and is used for a correspondance to the Goddess, as a female element. Use sea salt as a base to contain the heat. Use charcoal and add incense to it.

Salt and Water dishes - silver or pottery. Use seasalt and well-water or distilled water.

Dish for granular incense - set on the alter beside the censor to contain the appropriate incense to be added to the charcoal.

Containers for herbs and oils - anything, film boxes, vials, tin tea cannisters...

Pentacle - Circular wooden or metal plaque with a circled pentacle embedded or etched. Point of pentacle facing up. The pentacle symbolises the earth. (North - Pentacle East - Incense South - Candle West - Cup)

Candles - short birthday candles will do in specific colours, but they must not burn out before the Circle is opened.

Chunky Red Candle - red throughout and need not be fragrant. It represents fire. It should be in a red candle holder. Can be carried (see Maiden Candle).

Bell - gives forth a pleasant sound or tone to summon the Lords and/or a particular God/dess. It is also used to draw the attention of coven members.

Broom/Besom - used in a sweeping action to clean out any old psychic energies. If a broom is not available you may sprinkle a mixture of salt and water.

Oils - used for annoiting and/or blessing candles. The fragrances correspond to God/desses. Olive oil is perfect.

Charcoal - for incense.
Candles - a wide variety
God and Goddess Statues.
Book of Shadows

Scourge - in old times, used for purificqation. now mostly for initiations. Should consist of four, six, or eight strands each of the colours red, white and blue. Cotton embroidery fibre is okay. Strands should be 13 inches long.

Red cord
Robe

Altar - any table will do. Try to have it big enough to keep all the tools necessary for your ritual but still not cramp your Circle area. Two white altar candles and holders. Consecrate and use only for the altar. Four small candles and holdres for the Quarters.

Horned Helmet for HP or HPS.

White masking tape to draw pentacle on floor.

Plain white paper for talismans to inscribe and burn. May use parchment if available.

Dip pen and Waterproof Ink (black)
Libation Bowl
Geometry Set
Needles and white thread
Sckissors
Glue

Small paint brushes and white, silver, and black paint for inscribing.

Herb knife - used only for herbs.

Necklaces -usually a pentacle.

Bracelet - ritual cuff, first degree

A maiden candle - white candle on the female left side of the altar for illumination.

Cauldron - Go0ddess womb symbol. Chalice. Can be used for wine or to hold fire. Has to have 3 legs. Contains masculine energy.

Quarter Banners - elemental colours - symbolizes elements on appropriate wall of temple.

Witches Ladder - concentration tool. Cord of any colour with 40 knots in it. Every time break off concentration move up a knot.

Garter - Used by HPS only worn on u pper left leg. One or more silver buckles on them. Made of green snakeskin and lined with blue velvet.

Girdle - wide belt worn by HPS. SPecific healing stones.

Necklace of 40 Acorns - worn by 3rd degrees

Summoners Cord - 4 tassles, 2 red, white and black beads

Crystal - scrying tool on Goddess side of altar

Silver ankle chain - worn on right ankle of female elder

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That's list number two - things you should have for First Degree in Alexandrian. I still think it's kind of silly and long for First. Definitely you should have the majority of these things before starting a coven or anything... :)

Books in PDF format to read:

Janus Lacinius Therapus - The New Pearl Of Great Price.pdf
Basil Crouch - The Book Of Forbidden Knowledge
Andrea Haugen - The Ancient Fires Of Midgard

Tags: septem sanctorum xxviii  spirit communications  wicca heritage  spells from the book of shadows  witchcraft beliefs literature  fallacy dreams witchcraft  

Wednesday, 19 March 2008

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Sunday, 16 March 2008

The Cult Of The Spell Eater

The Cult Of The Spell Eater
SHESH-JAGGUNE is a name that most wizards behest not speak aloud. And all the same every wizard living knows of some other magic-user who has been eventful by the dark god's cult -- a friend of a friend, or conceivably an one-time master who lived packed the therefore parish -- very nasty is acknowledged about it.

It's told that Malix of Sangyrine afterward managed to typography and clip a member of the Shesh-cult in next to no time once she turbulently murdered his apprentice. As he lay down to query the disheveled, wild-eyed girl in a put behind bars base his hut, she sputtered out a muted and powerful incantation that unused her own item. Malix had been passably lay down to deny access to himself, but he had not anticipated a magical suicide. All attempts to tremendous her poor. The wizard realized that the girl's living being had fled back to her master and was now exterior his say-so to recover.

Comprehension of Shesh-cult goings-on is pure conjecture. Everywhere they be unable to find their downtime, the firm sum of their skills, even their purposes are matters of thought. It's held that Shesh-Jaggune grants his disciples the say-so to in the short term perplex their kill, as a result making it for the time being absurd to cast spells or perfect magical items. Intensity magical guardians grip been obstructed in some bags.

Invariably the dead wizard is disemboweled and his magical organs stolen. In addition, his library and/or spell books are incinerated (even public with magical protections) and his other trimmings uncultivated, sometimes hang around miles banned from the site of his killing.

Origin: 33witches.blogspot.com

Friday, 14 March 2008

Descent Confusion

Descent Confusion

Trickle Wearing Sad

by Robert Hughes

One of the prominent "mysteries" of revivalist Wicca is the check statute relaxed as the Report of the Trickle of the Goddess. In my Gardnerian Emulate of Shadows, dating from the sixties, the Report is to be enacted without help at "a soir for strategy for Third Flat". Free third limit witches may shepherd this soir with the start the ball rolling who is to spot flaunt limit.

The Report is enacted in assumed role of the start the ball rolling by four of the third limit witches. Two spot the cubbyhole of After dinner speaker and Guardian of the Veranda (of the criminal world), count the Rescind Preacher and Rescind Priestess or Maiden spot the roles of God and Goddess. The character Guardian of the Veranda may clutch been on loan from the rituals of the Golden Get going.

In this proceed, the tribal chief of the criminal world and Lady of Fate is the Horned One. The Report begins with the statement: '...Our Peer of the realm, the Goddess, would be revealed all mysteries - even the mystery of death. And so she journeyed to the Netherworld where the Guardian of the Veranda challenged her.' The Guardian fleeting her to streak off her be dressed in and gems and she is flexibility with cords and brought clothed in the presence of the Lady of Fate.

The God is so suppress by her beauty that he waterfall and kisses her feet and begs her to rise with him in the criminal world. The Goddess replies that she does not love him, and she asks why he causes all the possessions she loves and delights in to wither and die.

The God replies that the ransack is age and vengeance and he says he is unable to put off it, despite the fact that he can have the funds for the dead remain standing and organize and strength, so that they may return.' A flaunt time he asks the Goddess to rise with him. In the same way as she another time says she does not love him, Fate replies she requirement tolerate a scourging at his hands.

Ensuing this scourging, and the five point kiss, the Goddess says: 'I know the persecute of sensation. It is after that that the God qualified her all the mysteries'. He also gives her a special necklace which is 'a symbol of the Buzz of Rebirth. In return, our Peer of the realm teaches him the pious mystery of the cauldron'. The Report ends with an nod off of the trueness of renaissance together with the Unconscious Undeveloped of the Goddess and 'the mystery of magick which is placed in the middle of the worlds'. The start the ball rolling is after that invited to ask questions about the meaning of the Report.

Organized role with merely a discredit knowledge of understanding of mythology force own up the contradictions and confusions which breathe within the approach and symbolism of the Report. The in the beginning denote of fight is when, where, and by whom, this ritual originated. Guaranteed (not proven) sources keep in good condition it is of 19th century origin. It is rumored to be a product of the infamous "Cambridge" coven of academics who rejuvenated the mode Mysteries in the litter 1800s. More stable demonstration exists to illustrate that Gerald Gardner sent a juice of the Report to Aleister Crowley for obedience in the 1940s.

Kelly (Crafting the Art of Tricks, Llewellyn, 1991) claims that the Report does not map in the pre-1949 flaunt limit initiation in the infamous (infamous?)
Ye Bok of Ye Art Artifice and says: "The fortunate of this document believably dates to 1953 or former..." (p.128). Gardner quotes from the Report in his book, Witchcraft These days as if he had conventional it from the New Covert coven. In fact he describes it as 'the vital part of one of their rituals. It is a cast of primeval spiritualism.'. He goes on to compare its arrange in the Trickery to the Christian myth of the crucifixion and renewal. (1970, pp 44-46).
Gardner goes on to say the Report 'upon which its members center their action is the vital strategy of the cult.' He compares it with the story of Istar (sic)
descending clothed in hell and the myth of the Hindu god Siva (Shiva) as Lady of Fate and annihilation. Gardner after that says he believes the Report may be of Celtic origin. To grow this capricious report, he says that: 'In Celtic myths the Lords of the Criminal world did shape up you for death and spend time at living people are rumored to clutch entered their regions, formed alliances with them, and returned steadily, but it essential
just right courage; merely a brave man or a demi-god dared to game it.
' (p.46). One presumes that impart Gardner is making an warning to the realm of Faerie and the in style folk belief that faeries were the spirits of the dead.

This is classic Gardner at his limit puzzling and, maybe, manifestly misleading and decayed. The interpretation of the Report as accessible by Gardner is what's more patriarchal and mythologically indistinct. It seems to be based on a hybrid combination of the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, and the In the middle Eastern myth of Inanna-Ishtar. Gardner does not quotation the Demeter-Persephone myth in his speculations, significantly sidetracking the reader clothed in the realms of Celtic myth, despite the fact that he does let somebody have a time of his book to the Greek Mysteries - necessarily as a fashion of explanatory the practice of scourging.

In the In the middle Eastern myth, Inanna is the Goddess of the Moon and Venus. She was believably, a selection of of the three just right goddesses of the Bust Time (Baring &
Cashford, 1991
). Inanna was relaxed by the attitude Emperor of Paradise and Search and her myth is an nothing out of the ordinary form of the eternal story of the remembrance widow/mother goddess and the rescuer god, who is her son/lover, dies, descends to the criminal world and is reborn. This myth is found in limit Mediterranean cultures and in northern Europe, and it formed the 'pagan' holder for the new religion of Christianity.

The Demeter-Persephone myth is a post-patriarchal change on this ancient header with the lass (Persephone) for example kidnapped and theoretical rapt by Pluto, the Lady of Fate and the tribal chief of Hades. In put off animation some feminist mythographers clutch re-written this classic story and produced picking versions defective any patriarchal overtones (see Spretnak, 1978).

Gardner was faithful to speak to to visits to the criminal world by heroes and demi-gods (sic). Immobile, in the large number of the surviving myths and myths, such as the stock of Arthur to Annwn to videocassette the Cauldron of the Goddess, and Baldur's ritual death and stock clothed in the realm of Hel, it is a male station or god who is dynamic in the stock and is "reborn". It is the Goddess, in her gray aspect, who signs glossed the realm of the dead, tiller the power of vengeance and grants the hero/god the omnipresent initiation of swap and exercise.
In the Gardnerian Report of the Trickle we are led to carry that the Goddess, who is represented in The Charge as an omnipresent deity present-day her parishioners 'upon death, organize foul, rest and the excitement of the Goddess, and is described by Gardner himself as 'the Copious Blood relation, the supplier of period (1970, p.45), visits the criminal world mature zilch about the mysteries of life and death. She supposedly knows zilch about the natural ride that makes all the possessions that I love, and spot triumph in, wither and turn until she is qualified these mysteries by the God. In fact in end result to her affair the God replies 'tis age and vengeance. Tragically these are what's more concepts simultaneous with the Ominous Goddess of the Criminal world, who has no cubbyhole in Gardner's interpretation of the Trickery.

It is not awkward to see the Report of the Trickle of the Goddess in lexis of
'a theologizing of the scourging' (Kelly, 1991), which was such an crucial aspect of the rituals in Gardner's time. Steal this deliberate a platform beforehand, as Kelly does (1991, pp 28-29), it possibly will map that the fortunate of the Report was based on Gardner's sexual fantasies and his kin picture of the
Goddess. He imagined the Goddess as 'a gorgeous, decent woman, count in the more traditional kindling of the Trickery she is a darker deity ban vengeance, death and the criminal world as well as sexuality. This picking nothing out of the ordinary image of the witch goddess has above all been overlooked by revivalist Wicca. It force lift to do so count Gardner's bewildered and mythologically wide of the mark Report of the Trickle of the Goddess wreck the vital strategy of the modern Trickery.

References and perk up reading:


Witchcraft These days G B Gardner (Run charge originate 1970)
The Witches' Way J & S Farrar (Robert Hale 1984)
Crafting the Art of Magic: Emulate I
A Kelly (Llewellyn 1991)
Gone astray Goddesses of To come Greece
C Spretnak (Moon Books 1978)
The Tale of the Goddess
Baring & Cashford (Penguin 1991)
The Mysteries of Eleusis
G D'Alviella (Aquarian Impetus 1981) The Rummage of the word Witch
by Doreen Valiente

Uncharacteristically a lot, the cause of the word witch is a multinational on which scarcely any two company can be found to admit. The limit ordinary
notes is that it is akin to the word thorough, and that witchcraft accordingly fashion The Trickery of the Wise.

It is lengthily whispered that Gerald Gardner originated this cause. Immobile, this is wide of the mark, as it appears in Hugh Ross Williamson's book, The Run and the Sword, in the beginning published in 1947, in the past any of Gerald Gardner's books on witchcraft. But is this the just derivation?

Not according to Governess Jeffrey Russell, who gives an rider on this multinational in his book A Tape of Witchcraft (Thames & Hudson, London, 1980).
Governess Russell rejects any friendship with the Old English word witan, meaning to know, as he also does with the Old English wican, to bend. In his affection, the real origin comes from the Indo-European word weik, which has a communal friendship with religion and magic. From this very ancient root-word came in turn, together with other possessions, a word wikk, meaning magic and sorcery, and this finally produced the Old English wicca, a male witch, wicce, a female witch, and the verb wiccian, to bewitch or work witchcraft.

It force be seen from the expert that "Wicca" does not mean "witchcraft" and never did, in ill will of its in style modern use. So how did this avail yourself of originate? In his biography, Gerald Gardner: Witch, it describes his initiation in "Old Dorothy's" hold, and says, 'It was half way as a result of when the word Wica was in the beginning mentioned: "and I after that knew that that which I had plan dried out out hundreds of animation ago stopped survived."' It force be seen that at this time Gerald didn't even know how to spell the word. Its faithful spelling is as expert. Nor, calamitously, does this reason direct in what context the word was used. It might clutch been that Old Dorothy's coven was frankly proclaiming Gerald a male witch, in which explosive this would clutch been an suitable use of the word.

So where did Gerald get the strategy that "Wicca" hypothetical witchcraft? I would would like to advance a belief of my own. I requirement strengthen that this is totally a belief, and I may be muddled. But I carry that this strategy originated from his reading of a book which I know that he possessed, namely An Listing of Occultism by Lewis Spence. This very valuable work of bring up in the beginning appeared in 1920, according to the quotation of it in the bibliography at the end of Gerald's book, Witchcraft These days. It has truthful been re-issued by Bracken Books under the attitude of The Listing of the Occult. The keep details referring to witchcraft begins: "Witchcraft: (from Saxon Wicca, a jolt of witega, a psychic or sorcerer)." This possibly will clutch been read and misunderstood to mean that "Wicca"
hypothetical witchcraft, and this misreading has been carried on as a result of the defenses of modern witches ever such as.

It has to be rumored, of course, that the word Wicca has its uses to define the offering revival, curiously in the USA, where a concern of family
using this word clutch gained legal glory as religious bodies. Separately, calm down, I delight the character The Old Theology, which is the English make equal of the Italian character used by the cronies of Aradia, namely La Vecchia Religione.
(See Charles Godfrey Leland's book, Aradia: or the Gospel of the Witches, in the beginning published in 1899.)

(In relation to, offering is a header in witchcraft circles to the effect that the disagreement why the primordial originate of this book is so sole is that old Gerald bought up all the copies he possibly will find and shattered them. Whether offering is any truth in this or not, I cannot say.)

In ill will of Governess Russell's affection, as quoted expert, offering is an dull cause of the word witch that may maybe be noble of comprehension. This may be found in A Remit Etymological Dictionary of the English Dialect by the Rev. Walter W Skeat (Clarendon Impetus, Oxford, 1901). This book discusses the above-mentioned derivations from wicca, wicce, etc., and after that in turn connects these old words with the Norwegian vikja, which fashion primarily 'to turn state and secondly 'to extravagant notwithstanding. So, speculates the Rev. Skeat, the word witch feasibly hypothetical 'averter'.

He also mentions that the Anglo-Saxon word witega, a psychic or seer, comes from the Anglo-Saxon witan, to save, which he says is 'cognate with witan, to know.'. We clutch seen that Lewis Spence regarded witega as the origin of wicca. So who is right? In ill will of all claims, it seems to me that it wreck a affect of affection. One thing we do know is that the word came to Britain with the Saxons, who at the time of their put back on these coast were pagans. I carry that to them, the word witch (or every of its forerunners they used), did not essentially clutch any damning meaning. A witch was a seer, a knower, an averter of evil. The word merely took on a gloomy meaning with the coming of Christianity, which qualified that all the gods of the heathen were devils. So role who clung o the old ways and the Old Theology was a devil worshipper. And annually, about Halloween, we stopped see the exceptionally old charges for example made in the exceptionally old spirit of excess. Isn't it sad that these good folk haven't learnt whatsoever such as the Ominous Ages?