Δευτέρα 25 Οκτωβρίου 2010

Wicca,the hunted light

Wicca...Of course almost nobody here will know what wicca means.Wicca is a religion of paganism.I like to call wiccans druids because of their love of their goddess nature and the magic they use based on it.I had a friend who was wiccan,and he explained a lot of things about her religion.I found her wisdom really enlightening and sad too,because she was always complaining about people who think wiccans are bad witches or mages who use black magic etc.Of course such people are puppets of the church who thinks magic is nothing else but satan's works.Why the openminded church who love everyone knows nothing more than to hunt its own children and burn them to death?Wiccans use only good magic and their whole ideology is to protect nature(which contains also humans in it).Their number one rule is:"harm noone or the evil you've done will reaturn bigger".
But that i wrote is just my poor knowledge about this wisdom.I will share you now some texts found on the internet.(photos also found on internet,they do not belong to me).

Wiccan beliefs vary markedly between different traditions. However, various commonalities exist between these disparate groups, which usually include views on theology, the afterlife, magic and morality.

Wiccan believe to a god and  a goddess,and that the whole cosmos as alive, both as a whole and in all of its parts", but that "such an organic view of the cosmos cannot be fully expressed, and lived, without the concept of the God and Goddess. There is no manifestation without polarization; so at the highest creative level, that of Divinity, the polarization must be the clearest and most powerful of all, reflecting and spreading itself through all the microcosmic levels as well.Wiccans cast spells or workings during ritual practices, often held inside a sacred circle, in an attempt to bring about real changes in the physical world (these rituals are further explained in the "Ritual practices" section below). Common Wiccan spells include those used for healing, for protection, fertility, or to banish negative influences. Many early Wiccans, such as Alex Sanders, Sybil Leek and Doreen Valiente, referred to their own magic as "white magic",
There exists no dogmatic moral or ethical code followed universally by Wiccans of all traditions, however a majority follow a code known as the Wiccan Rede, which states "an it harm none, do what ye will". This is usually interpreted as a declaration of the freedom to act, along with the necessity of taking responsibility for what follows from one's actions and minimising harm to oneself and others. Another common element of Wiccan morality is the Law of Threefold Return which holds that whatever benevolent or malevolent actions a person performs will return to that person with triple force, or with equal force on each of the three levels of body, mind and spirit, similar to the eastern idea of karma. Both the Rede and the Threefold Law were introduced into the Craft by Gerald Gardner, and subsequently adopted by the Gardnerian and other traditions.

But the most interesting is that according to wiccan religon there exists 5elements and not 4 as most of us knew.
In certain traditions, there is a belief in the five classical elements, although unlike in ancient Greece, they are seen as symbolic as opposed to literal; that is, they are representations of the phases of matter. These five elements are invoked during many magical rituals, notably when consecrating a magic circle. The five elements are Air, Fire, Water and Earth, plus Aether (or Spirit), which unites the other four. Various analogies have been devised to explain the concept of the five elements; for instance, the Wiccan Ann-Marie Gallagher used that of a tree, which is composed of Earth (with the soil and plant matter), Water (sap and moisture), Fire (through photosynthesis) and Air (the creation of oxygen from carbon dioxide), all of which are believed to be united through Spirit.


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