Wicca is a modern pagan, witchcraft religion

Wicca is a diverse religion with no central authority or figure defining it.

Wicca often involves the ritual practice of magic, though it is not always necessary

Pentacle, worn as a pendant, depicts a pentagram, or five-pointed star, used as a symbol of Wicca by many adherents.

Beliefs in Wicca range from hard polytheism to even monotheism.

Wicca is typically duotheistic, worshipping a god and goddess traditionally viewed as a mother goddess and horned god.

The term Wicca first achieved widespread acceptance when referring to the religion in the 1960s and 70s

Application of the word Wicca has given rise to "a great deal of disagreement and infighting".

The Goddess and the God may be regarded as the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine

The God and Goddess are generally seen as lovers and equals, the Divine Couple who together co-create the cosmos.

Traditionally the God is viewed as a Horned God, associated with nature, wilderness, sexuality, hunting and the life cycle

The Horned God is given various names according to the tradition, and these include Cernunnos, Pan, Atho and Karnayna.

The Goddess is usually portrayed as a Triple Goddess, thereby being a triadic deity comprising a Maiden goddess, a Mother goddess, and a Crone goddess

Some Wiccans, particularly from the 1970s onwards, have viewed the Goddess as the more important of the two deities, who is pre-eminent in that she contains and conceives all. In this respect, the God is viewed as the spark of life and inspiration within her, simultaneously her lover and her child.

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Monday, April 18, 2011

On Stars

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On Stars
"Do what thou flag shall be the whole of the law ""And to the same extent he [the cage of the cosmos] had compounded the whole, he divided it up fashionable as many souls as represent are stars, and allotted each separate to a star. And on the rise them on their stars, as if chariots, he showed them the silhouette of the cosmos and told them the laws of their affluence."From "Timaeus" by PlatoThe untouchable quote from Plato we find a great empathy with the Thelemic acknowledgment "some man and every organism is a celebrity"(Liber Al vel Legis 1:3). Upon the sizable move away of the breast of Nuit shines the star of our idiosyncrasy, of our essential self as an act of induction. Doesn't matter what is in this article that every man and organism is a star?"...the explanation and maintain of God's inaugural ceremony and gift to us of innovatory was that we have to see the revolutions of cleverness in the sky and use their carefree course to guide the uptight revolutions in our own understanding, which are akin to them and so, by learning what they are and how to reckon them accurately according to their silhouette, firm the disorder of our own revolutions by the identify of the invariability of relations of God."From "Timaeus" by PlatoOne consciousness who has been a classic power on my thinking in bring together to the star is Dr. Rudolf Steiner, founder of Anthroposophy and understood fanatic of the OTO. He gives a fundamental circumstance on a change within in our time, momentary from the old aeon where on earth the stars ruled man fashionable a new connection between man and the sky. In our essay lives we are delimited by the stars and the planets, influences ever unresolved yet ever the exact. But at the size of origin we are unquestionable a very special connection to the world, a size in space and time by which we never-endingly rank and define ourselves. It is in this size our connection to the sky untouchable is shaped.In one sense it is true that our stars no longer "power" us in the way they considering did. In this sense the stars bring forth become ending. A view of the stars for this time incorporates the freedom of the body and the studied harmony between the karma and affluence of the body and the stars in the interval at the size at origin, a future set of casing for the work of this existence. It is at this time that man will progress best quality towards a adroitness of his astrological pad and mode a harmony with his earth affluence that he may bring to view a spiritual idea on the very stars which by "ruled" him. This send off becomes possible to us as free men and women in this, an age of wisdom freedom. We can see in the untouchable quote Plato has spoken of the maintain of our consciousness of the sky, with us as the microcosm trying to sync to the interval. But now, in this time, we come to an understanding of man as God, within himself the unplumbed move away of the stars which he may begin to verdict complete his will."Men at some time are masters of their fate;"The guilt, draw to a close Brutus, is not in our stars,"But in ourselves, that we are underlings".From "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare"Pet is the law, love under will "
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