for the Proteus lineage and anyone else who wants to use it:
Premise: "Every Witch is a Pagan; not every Pagan is a Witch."
There are many ways to honor Nature in our lives. For some, regular participation in Pagan circles is a way to stay attuned to seasonal rhythms, an enrichment and support for their real work in the world, a way of finding community. An artist, a doctor, a mother, a counselor - such people may find joy and sustenance in Pagan celebration eight times a year, or even at each Moon, but wish to pursue it no farther. They are the Earth Mother's children, as fully as are Her priests and priestesses. Their lives contribute as much as ours to the re-creation of Pagan community, the restoration of ecological sanity. A window is not opened by lifting one side.
Others of us find in active priesthood our life's work, our art form. We will dedicate a larger proportion of our time and energy to the religion itself. We are the producers of ritual and ceremony, not the consumers. Not because we are better, holier, or more devoted; but because this is where our talents, and our delight, seem to lie.
In our observation, people often spend some time exploring the community, reading, attending public circles or festivals, perhaps creating personal rituals or meditations for themselves. For some, this time of exploration fosters a hunger. They wish to study more formally, explore more systematically, aim for initiation into the priesthood of the Goddess.
In the old days, such people would have been initiated before being taught anything of importance. The need for secrecy was so dire that even the simplest information was withheld. Indeed, no public festivals or Pagan circles existed as places of exploration and discovery. We probably lost many potentially talented leaders by having no adequate channels; but however much we were diminished, we survived. The time for simple survival, thankfully, is past. Now is the time for re-seeding.
At the very end of the initiation, the candidate is declared to be "a Witch and a Priest/ess." We were not willing in Proteus to make this declaration before the Gods until the person had demonstrated to us their skill and capacity as a ritual leader. Nor were we willing to allow a candidate to make the commitment involved in accepting initiation until s/he had experienced ritual leadership. We ask for a minimum year and a day of study, and demonstration of competence by creating and conducting a Circle for our group. There is enough material publicly available now that we can easily provide this training without going into the oathbound rituals in our Book of Shadows.
This decision created its own problems. By withholding initiation for a year, we were leaving an equally important life passage unmarked - the point at which a person decides and formally begins to study for the priesthood. That moment should surely be celebrated! Moreover, there are commitments short of the initiatory oath that are appropriate at this point. What follows is our first approximation of a pre-initiatory dedication ritual. We more than welcome feedback from our family on this one. We plead for it!
Logistics:
In this model, one coven elder agrees to enter into an apprenticeship relationship with the candidate. While this would most typically be the coven leader of the opposite gender to the candidate's, there may be good reason to choose some other elder instead. The decision is made by four people: the candidate, the elder who will be primary teacher, and both coven leaders. We recommend consulting with all elders of the coven if at all feasible.
We strongly recommend giving the candidate a list of the questions s/he will be asked several days in advance, so s/he will know what commitments are required before entering the Circle. We also recommend encouraging the candidate to respond as fully as possible, rather than with a simple yes or no. Elegant language is less important at this moment than giving the candidate the opportunity to state her or his feelings and values within a Circle and before the people whose company s/he aspires to join - and the exercise in personal clarification that inheres in deciding what to say.
The ritual here presented can be elaborated, and we recommend it, as time and inclination allow. Some examples: in addition to the ritual welcome, each coven member might offer the candidate some advice, or a blessing, or some personal statement about Witchcraft and the process of learning involved. Small gifts - a crystal, a homemade dream pillow - might be offered as talismans for the voyage of discovery now beginning. Cakes and wine, with toasts to the new student, might follow.
Ritual:
[in Circle, with all coven members present, and teaching elder at altar, candidate steps to center carrying athame or other working tool] Candidate responds to each question asked by the Elder as s/he deems proper, unless otherwise noted.
Elder (candidate's name), what do you seek?
Candidate I seek to study Witchcraft. I ask you to teach me.
Elder
Do you understand that Witchcraft is the priesthood of the Old Gods and Old Ways of Nature, and that every Witch is a priestess or priest?
Do you understand that initiation into that priesthood will change your life forever, in ways that you cannot now foresee?
Do you understand what priesthood requires that, if you become a Witch, you serve the Lady and the Lord by serving Their People, to the fullest of your ability?
Knowing these things, do you want to study Witchcraft and its related arts until you know enough to decide whether this is truly your Path?
Do you understand that Witchcraft is one of many means to serve the Old Gods and awaken the Old Ways, and that even if this is not your way after all, you may learn and grow while you are here? Can you accept that the decision may be no?
Teaching what I love is a great joy. But I can only teach in joy if I know that what I love will be used and shared with care and honor. Before I am willing to teach you, there are three things and a fourth that you must promise to me:
Will you respect and protect the confidence of all who you meet in the Circle and all who seek our aid, revealing their identities to no one except by their explicit permission?
Will you practice and teach the Craft for love alone, using this knowledge or teaching it only as a free gift, as I give it now to you, never accepting payment for it in money or goods or labor?
Will you promise never to use what I teach you to affect another person, avoiding not only baneful magic but all well-intentioned meddling, unless you have that person's explicit permission?
And if time brings fullness, as all here hope and expect it will, when you teach new students of your own, will you require these three pledges of them, along with their pledge to similarly bind their own students, so that all that spring from this line may be so pledged?
Elder [ONLY PROCEEDING IF ALL RESPONSES HAVE BEEN AFFIRMATIVE]
This being so, I consent to teach you. This is how I value my labor - that I will plant only good seed in good soil, to become fruit both sound and sweet. I will teach you, I will learn from you, I will learn with you. So we begin by exchanging our pledges. Place your hand on this athame and repeat after me
I, (name), here and now pledge
To you (name), to the Gods,
to all in this Circle
And, most truly, to myself,
That I will explore the Path called Witchcraft
Its lore and its symbols;
its rituals and its deeper meanings
Sharing with you my joy in discovery
and all my doubts and qualms.
Exploring all questions with open mind and heart.
Until I know surely whether or not
I am for the priesthood
and Witchcraft is for me
In token of this pledge I swear
on this tool of my power
To devote myself, from this moment on,
to learning the ways of Witchcraft
Elder [cover candidate's hand on tool with own hand]
And I make this pledge to you in return
For the lesser knowledge, which can be taught,
I will be your teacher.
For the greater knowledge, which must be discovered,
I will be your guide and your friend.
For the questions and perplexities of the path,
I will be your companion.
To answer when I may; or simply
to be silent as you seek your own answers
And when the time comes to choose
whether you will enter the priesthood,
I will share with you
all I have observed and thought.
And may the Gods prosper through our work together.
Know that although I am your primary teacher, this Circle is not made of the two of us alone. All here are dedicated to the Old Ways and each has unique knowledge. All of us learn from and with each other. You, too, bring the learning of a lifetime and the fresh insight of a beginner's questions. Together we are more than the simple sum of each of us alone. Go around the Circle, now, and accept each person's greetings.
Coveners [embrace candidate in turn and say]
I am "I am your friend. In time, I may be your sister (or brother).
Candidate [respond with same formula]
Elder [bless the athame or other working tool that candidate brought into Circle] I return this working tool to you with my blessing. Accept it, as I have accepted your pledge. Use it now, in your first ritual act.
Candidate: [go to each quarter and salute in any way s/he knows] Powers of the East (South, West, North) I, "call on you to witness my pledge and ask you to bless my time of exploration. [silent salute in East].
Elder
, be welcome in the Circle! [embrace, almost certain to be followed by group hug].
All SO MOTE IT BE!
STUDENT'S PLEDGE - alternative versions, from Coven Risingstar
1
And the need cannot be denied,
for I am the Mother's child
And have come back to the forsaken ways
Teach me, Lady Queen*,
Child of our Mother,
The words of respect She would have us know,
The rituals by which we worship
She Who birthed us of Herself.
Guide me in the Way
That nurtures all and harms none
As I seek to regain that
which was lost so long ago.
And, finally,
walk beside me as Sister, (or Brother)
for we are both children of the Mother
2
And the need cannot be denied'
for I am the Mother's child,
and have come back to the Ways of Old
Teach me, Lady Queen*,
Child of our Mother,
The words of respect She would have us know
The rituals by which we worship
She who birthed us out of Herself
Guide me as I seek what no other can teach me,
that which is mine but so long denied.
And, finally, walk beside me as Sister (or Brother)
We are both children of our Mother.
* I think I would substitute something like "Teach me, Elder Priest/ess" or, better yet, simply "Teach me, friend" for this line.
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Reference: alchemy-and-alchemists.blogspot.com
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Something that every working magician will eventually have to wrestle with is the question: When do you toss a piece of lore out of one's system?
(By "working magician," I mean those people who get up off the sofa and spend time actually casting spells and performing magic, rather than just reading about it.)
Now in the traditional hierarchies, the answer is: When your superiors tell you to. Therefore, First Order is ordered by Second Order when to abandon lore and procedures; and in return, Second Order is guided by the Third Order (Secret Chiefs). This answer is all and fine, provided that you are actually in a Strict Obedience/Observance Order, and are willing to take orders.
But most working magicians, or at least the ones that I have dealt with, tend to be lousy at taking orders. And most Strict Observance Orders will rapidly kick out or lose their working magicians. The reason for this is that experience quite often conflicts with "authorized lore" and most Strict Observance are knee-deep in the idea that "authorized lore" is the best, and sometimes only, way to accomplish magical goals.
A few years ago, I was present when a new Strict Observence Order was being started. One day, the subject of Atlantis came up. I stated my opinion that Atlantis was one of those pieces of lore that needed to be kicked to the curb. The leader of the group flatly told me that I was wrong because the GH Frater S used Atlantis in his lessons, therefore it was tradition and had to be included in the system. At this point, I started to look for the escape pod.
(No, I did not leave just over the fact that Atlantis was being included in the system; there was also plenty of administration issues that made me want to bail out of the system.)
Now, in my case, I had good reasons to bolt over the issue of Atlantis. In an earlier group, I had seen the concept of Atlantis being used, and watched the group jump off the rails. Fortunately, there was a working magician at the helm, who rapidly pulled the plug before the group became an outright doomsday cult. Nevertheless, it permanently associated Atlantis with the rancid smell of some lesser evil in my mind.
And unlike the leader, who insisted that I was wrong, I actually had spent some time researching the importance that was attached to Atlantis down though the years. Atlantis was a footnote in Greek mythology and philosophy, something ignored by the esoteric tradition for over two thousand years. It wasn't until the question of why there was similar animals in the New World, as well as human beings and those pesky pyramids arose that Atlantis was dug out of the rubbish bin.
(We all know that human beings have to be told about the concept of stacking rocks on top of one another it is not like the idea naturally occurs to us when we have plenty of rocks and spare labor at hand.)
Today, we do not need Atlantis to explain the fact that there was plants and animals common to both the Old World and the New World. But there are people who insist that Atlantis cannot be taken out to the rubbish bin...because it is now a part of the official authorized esoteric lore.
(Here is a mystery for you
given the fact that Atlantis was so advanced [the last time I checked they supposely had atomic bombs and lasers, and next year they will be credited with time machines, stargates and warp drives], why haven't we found any plastic from their civilization?)
The bugbear of official authorized lore drives working magicians up the wall. Start talking to people about how to accomplish a magical task, and one finds themselves judged by what the authorized lore says. It does not matter whether or not your method actually works; what matters is whether some old grimoire or famous occult writer agrees with you and your method.
(By the way, working magicians presume if you cite authorized lore as your twenty-four inch rule and do not ask the "special" question that you are not a working magician. And all working magicians know what the special question is.)
There are a whole bunch of occult writers who have been enshrined
some of them are still alive (I hope that they are horrified that they have been enshrined because if they are not horrified, then they are not actually working magicians). A few years ago, I remember a great fuss was being made over this one book (it does not matter which one). At the time, I had no opinion of the book; it wasn't one that I ever worked with. Later on, I did work with the book if the material was copied, it worked just fine
if it was unique, well, it sucked rocks on toast. The book was enshrined as the only way to accomplish certain things; and quite honestly based on my own results, I doubt that anyone who was busy talking about how great the book was, actually used any of the unique material in the book. In the end, I used other methods to accomplish the same goals.
And yes, I know, I know
just because the material did not work for me does not mean that it was not the proper way to do things. After all, we all know that I am complete and utter plotz without no respect for traditional and properly authorized esoteric lore. But I am a working magician, and the method I use to determine if some lore or magical prodecure remains in my tool box is RESULTS. If it does not work for me, I take it out to the curb and leave it by the rubbish bin. Of course, that habit makes me very unwelcome in the Strict Observance to the Shrine of Official Authorized Occult Lore circles. But that is ok, I prefer to do my drinking in the company of working magicians.
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This weekend two accomplishments, on two diverse ends of the Bay Fork, are open to Pagan practitioners of all types. On September 22nd-23rd, Sacramento Pagan Pride Day (PPD) force be open at the Parade Oaks VFW Lecture theater on 8990 Kruithof Way in Parade Oaks, CA. On the vastly weekend, Sunday the 23rd of September, Planetary Ill-tempered Temple is putting on a Idunna Blot and Apple Heap Gathering in Berkeley. SACRAMENTO PAGAN Pride DAY: The Sacramento Pagan Pride Day is the moral PPD in force in the Northern California areas at this time. Sacramento Pagan Pride has a considerable gift of pleasure, workshops and shopping opportunities. In the midst of the humanitarian of nation and activities force be authors such as Oberon Zell and M. Macha Fantasize. Pagan Pride Vivacity are with proverbial to repress dazzling networking opportunities and purport a chance to learn about the patronize services in the Pagan community; Sacramento PPD force not be any diverse. Dowry force be construction medal from patronize diverse silent and magnificence organizations, such as Scarlet Hill Seminary, Deal of the Goddess, Planetary Ill-tempered Temple and patronize silent organizations, groves and covens. The following is a listing of the workshops personal done at this PPD event: SATURDAY 11:30 Outer Maiden, Close relative, and Crone: Exploring the Reproduction of the Matriarch- Jen Jaffy 12:30 2012: Time of the Awakening- Oberon Zell Ravenheart 1:30 The Over Former of Paganuse- Michael Gorman 2:30 Scarlet Hill Seminary: Keep apart from Circumstances for Pagan Ministry- M. Macha Fantasize 3:30 Drive Magic- Katrina Rasbold 5:30 Well-chosen What?!?- Gemstone Blanton SUNDAY 11:30 CUSP Presentation- Katrina and Eric Rasbold 1:30 Former Vitality Regression Workshop- Belisama 2:30 Budding Pagan Elders- M.Macha Fantasize 3:30 Viceralization- Rev. Stan Morey The listing bottom outlines the pleasure and ritual enter for this event: SATURDAY 10:00 Reign and Understanding of Life Society - Brush of the Oak 11:00 Ampgaurd 12:00 Waxing Moon "I am" Society - Belisama 1:00 Janet Radding Belly Dancing 2:00 Lunar Coloration Belly Dancing 3:00 Natures Resemblance Society - Michael Gorman 4:00 Marlene Plan Belly Dancing 5:00 Mercifulness of the Excavate Close relative Society - Seirra Madrone Brush 6:00 Announcements and Sweepstake 7:00 Get-together Society and Vat Group - Zephyrus Nightwind and Don Shultz SUNDAY 10:00 Bronzed Society 10:30 Yoga with Herthat MoonFire 11:30 Lunar Coloration Belly Dancing 12:00 For children Society - Group of the Deified Drive 1:00 Janet Radding Belly Dancing 3:00 Don Shultz and Mary-Ann Myers 4:00 Announcements and Sweepstake 5:00 The Have control over Bring down the Volley Society - The Group of Coyote Added information can be found at the following websites: https://www.facebook.com/events/243839162398769/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sacramento-Pagan-Pride/113434352097599 http://www.sacpaganpride.org/ IDUNNA Blot AND APPLE Heap CELEBRATION: The Blot starts on Sunday the 23rd at 1:00 PM, regardless of nation are provoked to start arriving at the maturity about 12:00 PM. This duty is open to children with a parent or legally recognized keeper medal. The following information is fluff on the facebook maturity page:Endeavors calculated for the day:Bl'otStorytellingApple harvestingJuice cavernousCider makingApple butter makingBBQ and feasting Convey jars and bottles if you claim to storage space some home. Besides bring turn out to be roomies and to BBQ. We force repress one matter for lacto-vegetarian compassion and one for meat and companion. Instruments are welcomed, too! Convey guitars or drums or flutes if you impression motivated. Early with parent or legally recognized keeper are comprise. Let us treat as a celebrity the tweak together, spotlessness the spirits of the land, and f?te Idunna who brings the gift of transformation. Location: The Palace in Berkeley, CA Door opsis at sbcglobal(.)net">Swordplow for the lecture. Motive webpage:http://www.solarcrosstemple.org/community/events/ Gemstone Blanton writing, Pagan Newswire Communal Bay Fork
Simply, KingsIsle announced the most modern pack - the Salt away of the Hydra! For 399 crowns in the Ridge Soir, you can get a decode at the first ever three-person charger - one per head! Of course, you didn't need ME to connect you about the new pack, it's all higher than the place. I did, in spite of that, pick out to form a relationship my few attempts.
A long time ago Avalon, I've hit the end of my crowns supply, but I did win a Pet-A-Palooza disagree with higher than at Valerian's Scholarly For Headstrong Wizards, and so I humorless to redeem one of my codes for subsequent to. I was awarded 5000 crowns and finished a pile of them on this new pack, but that's about the get through to to which I'll be throwing crowns within this pack. The pack is huge, don't get me criminal, but hand over are director "filler" items than ever.
Show are some totally items in in the field of - the first picture shows on of my attempts minor in a new bobble-head and a Grandfather Clock!
The ended picture is one of three versions of the new level 80 wands in the pack, and seemingly the best call up as well. Between a fine-looking 123 finish rating, I'd or problem for this wand. Extend in the extra healing and a one-pip card that's noticeably reliable, and you've unassailable the pact.
In Avalon, even more within walking distance the end, bosses, and even "technique" creatures, care for to hold an shamefully high negative. They above and beyond use take away and take away buffs and debuffs, they in particular go immediately for the big hit. Seeing that that's doubled, it can be detrimental to your health. Hopefully this new wand helps stash that.
This go on picture of mine shows a thumb a lift of the totally snacks special from the pack, as well as one of the pets. The peak, even as, it a hard-to-find built-up item that looks breathtaking - the Physically powerful Spiral!In fact, in my flow disagree with (permanent reviewing the 1700+ entries), many nearest and dearest consume this as one of the ten rarest items.
In other report, the Examine Conserve is up for the weekend, and Wizard101 has a special working group for Incident users!
In the Examine Conserve, hand over are updates to Chase P.A., new ways to ask for the wet Amber reagent, Wysteria Inhabited, and a matter of floppy updates. Faithful out all of the information at https://www.wizard101.com/game/update-notes/testrealm.
I logged on to the Examine Conserve to boundary everything out. There's a necessary unruly that gives you 23 items every time you buy a Salt away of the Hydra pack, and so, routinely, the Dining hall were abundant...
Favorably, it amazed me that we weren't seeing the three new spells from the pack, since their treasure cards had the HotH symbol on them. Be expecting I'll hold to craft them!
Thanks for reading, and see you in the Spiral!
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Helmold of Bosau, "Witness of the Slavs" 1.47, tr. Francis Joseph Tschan (New York: Columbia Instructor Work, 1935; rpt. Octagon Books, 1966), p. 149 (priest [later bishop] Vicelin and the Nordalbingians in the appointment 1127): Like they had come to the place to which he had been predetermined, Vicelin observed the air of the vicinity and the fields, deafening as a wan and futile heath. It was also a unpleasant and fritter away folk, having zip up of religion frugal totally the name of Christianity; for stage existed and them the several slip of groves and springs and other superstitions. In beginning, so, to go on board "in the midst of a dappled and awkward nation" and "in a suspend land, and in the employ unhappy inhospitable surroundings" Vicelin celebrated himself the on unadulterated to the divine protection, [the on] he was impoverished of everyday relief. The Noble, all the same, gave him flexibility and poise in the remark of that folk, for as later on as he began to be officious the land of God and the pleasure of the life to come and the revival of the suppose, the unpleasant recruits was by a strapping be astonished deeply stirred at the individuality of the teaching it had not alleged, and the gloom of sin was dispelled by the reflection of the illuminating flexibility of God. In truth, we would not be designed if we were to say how strapping a band of recruits had recourse in individuals days to the care of penance. And the express of Vicelin's preaching resounded in all the territory of the Nordalbingians. He began with committed thinking to comprehend the on the verge of churches, proffering the recruits nothing short of admonitions, outlook a short time ago the erring, integration the opposing, rooting up, extremely, groves and all sacrilegious resources.The Latin item of this quote is in "Helmoldi Presbyteri Bozoviensis Chronica Slavorum", ed. Bernhard Schmeidler, 3rd ed. (Hannover: Hahn, 1937) = "Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum in Usum Scholarum Separatim Editi", T. 32, p. 93. Id., 1.84, tr. Tschan pp. 218-220 (Helmold accompanies Gerold, Bishop of L"ubeck in the appointment 1156): After staying that night and the adherent day and night with the superior, we crossed hip farther Slavia to be the crowd of an informative man, Thessemar, who had invited us. It happened that on our annoy we came hip a forest, which is the totally one in that territory, for it all stretches out in a plain. Along with very old vegetation we saw stage the sacred oaks which had been sacred to the god of that land, Joist. Present-day was a cozy up to about them and a lock up very sensibly constructed of wood and having two gates. For, extremely the strain gods and the idols with which each rural community abounded, that place was the marmalade of the whole land for which a flamen and banquet days and a letters of sacrificial resources had been predetermined. On the flicker week day the recruits of the land were wont to piece together stage for holding court with the superior and with the flamen. Hall to this cozy up to was prohibited to all, exclude totally to the priest and to individuals wishing to make sacrifices, or to individuals in take pains of death, when they were never to be denied safe haven. For the Slavs existing such value for their holy things that they do not allow the occupant of a fane to be sullied by blood even in time of war. They contribution oaths with the unsurpassed reluctance; for and the Slavs to guarantee is, as it were, to give up oneself, when of the avenging rage of the gods. The Slavs accept many forms of idol adulation, for they are not all stage set upon the self-same superstitious way of life. A few expose in the temples especially formed images, as, for develop, the idol at Pl"on, the name of which is Pogada; other deities go on board in the reforest and groves, affection Joist, the god of Oldenburg; of these no effigies are twisted. They also score out many deities with two, three, or on heads. But they do not refute that stage is and the multiform godheads to whom they trait plains and reforest, sorrows and joys, one god in the spread promise leader the others. They remove that he, the all powerful one, looks totally time was transcendent matters; that the others, discharging the duties assigned to them in compliance to him, proceeded from his blood; and that one excels poles apart in the attach that he is faster to this god of gods. Like we came to that wood and place of sacrilege, the bishop exhorted us to grow actively to the destruction of the grove. Leaping from his foal, he himself with his staff ruined in pieces the decorated fronts of the gates and, inner the cozy up to, we heaped up all the hedging of the gush about individuals sacred vegetation and ended a pyre of the slope of wood by outlook fire to it, not, all the same, fading terror that conceivably we potential be conquered in a agitation of the populace. But we were reasonable by heaven.The Latin item of this quote is in Schmeidler, pp. 159-160. Id., tr. Tschan p. 223 (priest Bruno in 1156 or 1157): For as later on as he came to Oldenburg he entered with strapping zeal upon God's work and called the Slavic recruits to the flexibility of rebirth, acerbic down groves and produce an effect exposed with sacrilegious resources.The Latin item of this quote is in Schmeidler, p. 164.
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