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| The future of the faith!
Were is the Wiccan faith going. The Wiccan faith is been with us for more than a million years. Cave paintings of priest with Wiccan garters on can be found in france. But the faith has changed and grown. It is now 2007. So were to now.
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| PRINCIPLES OF WICCAN BELIEF.
PRINCIPLES OF WICCAN BELIEF. I. We practice rites to attune ourselves with the natural rhythm of life forces marked by the phases of the moon and the seasonal quarter and cross quarters. II. We recognize that our intelligence gives us a unique responsibility towards our environment. We seek to live in harmony with nature, in ecological balance offering fulfillment to life and consciousness within an evolutionary concept. III. We acknowledge a depth of power far greater than that apparent to the average person. Because it is far greater than ordinary it is sometimes called ‘supernatural,’ but we see it as lying within that which is naturally potential to all. IV. We conceive of the creative power in the universe as manifesting through polarity – as masculine and feminine – and that this same creative power lies in all people, and functions through the interaction of the masculine and the feminine. We value neither above the other, knowing each to be supportive of the other. We value sex as pleasure, as the symbol and embodiment of life, and as one of the sources of energies used in magickal practices and religious worship V. We recognize both outer worlds and inner, or psychological, worlds sometimes known as the spiritual world, the collective unconsciousness, inner planes, etc. We see in the interaction of these two dimensions the basis for paranormal phenomena and magickal exercises. We neglect neither dimension for the other, seeing both as necessary for our fulfillment. VI. We do not recognize any authoritarian hierarchy, but do honour those who teach, respect those who share their greater knowledge and wisdom, and acknowledge those who have courageously given of themselves in leadership. VII. We see religion, magick and wisdom in living as being united in the way one views the world and lives within it – a worldview and philosophy of life, which we identify as ‘the wiccan way’. VIII. Calling oneself ‘a Wiccan’ does not make a Wiccan. But neither does heredity itself, or the collecting of titles, degrees and initiations. A wiccan seeks to control the forces within her/himself that make life possible in order to live wisely and well without harm to others and in harmony with nature. IX. We believe in the affirmation and fulfillment of life in a continuation of evolution and development of consciousness giving meaning to the universe we know and our personal role within it. X. Our only animosity towards any other religion or philosophy of life, is to the extent that its institutions have claimed to be ‘the only way’ and have sought to deny freedom to others and to suppress other ways of religious practice and belief. XI. As modern wiccans, we are not threatened by debates on the history of the craft, the origins of various terms, the legitimacy of various aspects of different traditions. We are concerned with our present and our future. XII. We do not accept the concept of absolute evil. We do not seek power through the suffering of other, nor accept that personal benefit can be derived only by denial to another. XIII. We believe that we should seek within nature that which is contributory to our health and wellbeing.
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