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Saturday, 4 August 2012
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Having caught up with Melusine Draco in her mountain lair, it isn't difficult to see why the spirit of the landscape has such an impact in her writing. As Michael Howard of "The Cauldron" wrote, she was an initiate of the late Bob Clay-Egerton's traditional Coven of the Scales and has been a practicing occultist, magical teacher and writer on esoteric subjects for over twenty years. And as fellow esoteric author, Alan Richardson, observes: "Melusine Draco, as her name suggests, has long been plugged into the powerful currents of traditional witchcraft and ritual magic. She is one of the real ones..."
Surprisingly, the lady herself is not the stereotypical High Priestess and is refreshingly down to earth, as the tone of her books reveals. "I can't be doing with all the posing and posturing and it was something that Bob [Clay-Egerton] would have quickly knocked out of us if we'd tried to adopt it. He was a past-master at deflating monstrous egos and always went straight for the jugular if anyone showed signs of being precious." In fact, speaking from experience, meet her at any pagan conference or workshop and you won't find any outward or give-away traces of witchiness at all.
She has just finished proofing "Traditional Witchcraft "> There is now time to talk about the 'Traditional Witchcraft' series: "Traditional witchcraft is of the Earth, earthy... and to be a true witch means having a close, almost unearthly bond with Nature. Without a thorough grounding in natural history, how can a witch hope to recognise the unusual phenomena of the flora and fauna they encounter in their daily lives when it comes to receiving the 'signs'?"
Does this mean Melusine Draco is an eco-witch? "Certainly not. I'm country born and bred and learned from a very early age to accept that Nature is the domain of" both "male and female of each species - and red in tooth and claw. Even the flora can be dangerous if you don't understand what you are handling. Our Arcanum course teaches the art of learning to see through Old Craft eyes, and it's surprising the number of so-called experienced practitioners who come to us, and do not have this affinity with the natural world. Without it you can play about with coloured candles and joss sticks until kingdom come, but it won't make you an Old Craft witch."
In case this seems to be an over simplistic approach to Craft, Andy Lloyd Book Reviews puts her writing in its proper perspective: "The 'Traditional Witchcraft' series provides varied information about what it means to be a practising witch in modern times. In places, it feels like a guide, or self-help book. But there is much more to it than that. What strikes me is the amount of science running through the book. To understand nature is to live as a part of nature, and ultimately to become one with its changing patterns and cycles, to synchronise one's own psychic or magical energy with natural tidal forces and the elements. So a witch, like no other religious practitioner that I'm aware of, must study her environment carefully, and attune her life to it... The learning is multi-disciplinary, and feels almost as if one was studying a textbook written by a poet... it has that sense of quiet wonder about it, supported by education, knowledge and, above all, wisdom."
In fact, the whole Traditional Witchcraft series has been structured along the lines of a distance learning course (in both paperback and e-book format), so that the would-be traditional witch has a step by step guide to follow. "Traditional Witchcraft for Urban Living" (originally published as "Mean Streets Witchcraft") is the first in the series and as the title suggests, is aimed at the majority of pagans living in an urban environment rather than insisting that a witch must live in the country before he/she can learn about traditional British Old Craft. The second step is revealed in "Traditional Witchcraft for the Seashore" (and one of her favourite titles) teaches us how to work with the natural tides within our own natural environment, even if we don't live by the sea.
Step three, "Traditional Witchcraft for Fields and Hedgerows", covers what most of us would think of in terms of traditional Craft, and brings us back into the comfort zone where we feel safe and secure - before step four casts us back out into the more hostile world of "Traditional Witchcraft for the Woods and Forests". As our tutor tells us, the magical energies differ quite considerably between the two environments.
It was intriguing to learn why the historical view of "Traditional Witchcraft and the Pagan Revival "was left until step five, but Ms Draco doesn't look at things like normal mortals! "It's not until we've been studying traditional Craft for a while that we start to notice both the differences "and" the similarities between the various disciplines. We want to know where our beliefs come from; to trace our antecedents; and to understand why some of our ways are often diametrically opposed to those of other traditions we read about. That is why the fifth in the series was written as a magical anthropology; simply to make sense of some of the things we've never recognised before."
Not all her books, however, are favourably received. Some reviewers claim there is nothing new contained within them, or that there are no great revelations in the text. "Craft learning is about forty percent information and sixty percent intuition, but it's also about realising when intuition is telling us that we don't have all the information. There "are "books claiming to reveal the 'secrets' of traditional Craft - but intuition "should "tell us that if the secrets can be revealed in the reading of one book, then the author can't have that much to reveal. The real secret is that "THERE ARE NO SECRETS", only a system of revelation that eventually leads us to a series of guides or teachers, to further our progress along the Path to the Mysteries."
There is the unspoken thought that she is trying to commit all the fundamental Coven of the Scales teaching to print so that the basics of Bob and Meriem Clay-Egerton's approach to traditional British Old Craft is saved for posterity - hence the passing reference to the Mysteries, which will form the basis for the sixth and final title in the series: "Traditional Witchcraft and the Path to the Mysteries". "To fully understand the Mysteries, we "must "be fully integrated into the natural world so that reading the signs and portents becomes second nature. The ritual and psycho-drama associated with witchcraft is, of course, a means to an end for those with little personal witch-power, and there is nothing wrong with this approach if it is necessary. But a 'real' witch can summon up and project that energy in the middle of Euston station during a wet Monday rush hour because to quote a line from a favourite poem of mine: '"Even in the city's throng, I feel the freshness of the steams..."'. Nature is with us at every step but we need to learn the language."
Finally, are there any other words of wisdom that she'd like to impart? "How about have trust in the Lord, and keep your powder dry! Take it to mean have faith in your own personal Craft abilities, and learn to keep your witch-power primed for use at all times."
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Friday, 3 August 2012
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"Now because Jesus came voguish the area of Caesarea Philippi, He was asking His disciples, "Who do ethnic group say that the Son of Man is?"And they thought, "A number of say John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but reserve others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."He thought to them, "But who do you say that I am?"Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."And Jesus thought to him, "Blissful are you, Simon Barjona, for example flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Mother who is in illusion." (Matt. 16:13-17)So, He is not just a visionary, but Christ, the Son of the living God. Christ or Messiah course "Anointed", meaning from formation He was anointed with the Lead to of God. That is, the Lead to of God Himself dwelled focus of Him. This is why He was instinctive of a virgin, for that is how Jehovah Himself may perhaps become come to life. That He was Jehovah, is in a daze by heap statements He prepared about Himself, and this one:"All power has been prearranged to Me in illusion and on earth". (Matt. 28:18).By this is designed that He puffed up His material tradition, and prepared it Portend. For public who ferret a Tritheism of three folks, if by all means that is true, that there are three persons: if Jesus has all power, then what does God the Mother have? That solely does not make common sense. What does make common sense is the Mother was focus of Him, as the vivacity is focus the tradition.
A choice of who were covering the inner circle of disciples restrained Jesus to be a good studious. Was He just a good teacher? Arbitrator this passage:
"NOW Regard, ONE CAME AND Held TO HIM, "Delightful Guide, what good thing shall I do that I may wolf eternal life?"So He thought to him, "WHY DO YOU Measure ME GOOD? NO ONE IS Delightful BUT ONE, THAT IS, GOD. But if you nasty to enter voguish life, buttress the commandments." (19:16-17)Like he says to this man, who had followed the 10 commandments:
"If you nasty to be fathom, go, sell what you wolf and heap to the grimy, and you wish wolf set great store by in heaven; and come, ferret Me". (19:21)The 10 commandments begin with "I am the Lady your God." This man, who pondering he had followed all the commandments, did not be aware of Jesus as Lady, or Jesus as Jehovah in material form. But some may boost the determination of Jesus as stating He was not God. This is not true...cargo space these statements that Jesus made:
"I AM THE Delightful Guide. The good accompany gives His life for the traditionalist." (John 10:11)
"I AM THE Delightful SHEPHERD; and I know My traditionalist, and am frequent by My own". (John 10:14)A accompany is one who guides and instructs...a studious. So Jesus' challenge was the least bit melodramatic...He was gently leading the man to envision of who he was dialect to. It is not copiousness to solely live a remedy life. Corruption call for be spiritual, for all good originates from God. We appropriate that to ourselves by living by it, and that becomes conjoined to our vivacity. As God's Lead to begins to live in us, it is that spiritual invasion which causes us to wolf eternal life.
So, because reading the Gospels, one has this odd collect to make about Jesus: He is either Lady, or He is a Cheat, or He is a Uncontrollable. The Cheat impression force digression enthusiastically, because one considers that Jesus was crucified for not substantiate off from the claims to Goddess He prepared about Himself. This "trilemma" was prepared desirable by C.S. Lewis who thought the following:"I am trying here to salvage anyone saying the really brutish thing that ethnic group regularly say about Him: I'm ready to present Jesus as a furthest remedy studious, but I don't present his in shape to be God. That is the one thing we call for not say. A man who was definitely a man and thought the style of notes Jesus thought would not be a furthest remedy studious. He would either be a stormy - on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or extremely he would be the Imp of Hell. You call for make your collect. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or extremely a madman or whatever thing minor. You can lock him up for a false, you can spit at him and produce buds him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and send a message him Lady and God, but let us not come with any patronising junk about his reality a furthest material studious. He has not not here that open to us. He did not plan to.... Now it seems to me sickening that He was neither a stormy nor a fiend: and for this reason, however strange or beyond words or improbable it may aspect, I wolf to present the view that He was and is God."The Jews did not escape the trilemma: they solely thought the view that this guy was insane, or had a demon focus of him. They went with the "Uncontrollable" impression and fanatical with that, in spite of the miracles He performed.
Take wing FROM THE TRILEMMA
Unmodified the harass of the Trilemma of Lady, Cheat or Uncontrollable, there are two desirable escapes from this logical conundrum:1. The Biblical scriptures were sham. Jesus did not say public odd notes about himself, and did not make any in shape to Goddess. This is next called the "Heading" impression.
2. Jesus did make public claims about Himself, but was some petite reality, an Guardian angel or Avatar, created at the back the living being of God.For impression #1, next frequent as the "Heading" impression, for it to maintain true it call for be in a daze that the Gospels were one way or another sham successive in time. A number of modern scholars maintain to this view, but it is next desirable in the course of Muslims. For public who wolf intended Biblical accusation, there is no witness to helpfulness this impression. State are comparatively thousands of old manuscripts and trash, thin effortlessly, anywhere it becomes comparatively easy to shout modifications to scripture. One would wolf to pitch out ample portions of the Gospels to endure that Jesus was just a visionary -- and this is whatever thing that Thomas Jefferson did with the Bible. He reduced the Gospels, took out all the statements with respect to Jesus' claims to Goddess, and detached all references to miracles...in the end, Jesus becomes an be around man, who mystify comparatively dead at the back the crucifixion. State is no tabloid witness to helpfulness this view...and one is not here with the what went before insect of how Christianity may perhaps wolf begun with a visionary who prepared no claims about himself, and died an be around death. One would next compel to explain the babyish martyrs who died for their beliefs -- and the understood traditions of the apostles. In small, it is an unforgivable what went before impression.
ARIANISM
In the 3rd century A.D., a heresy arose frequent as "Arianism", named at the back Arius, who stated that Jesus was the crucial created reality yet to be God prepared assembly. This is impression #2 - that Jesus was an saintly reality or avatar, made whom all notes were created. It is for this heresy non-centrally that the thinking of the Trinity of three folks was rumored in the fourth century. The church elatedly counteracted the heresy, but in so play in jumped from the boiling pan voguish the fire: the thinking largely is a form of Tritheism. To a certain extent of recognizing Jesus as Jehovah in material form, a show number of a Trinity of beings was created in this thinking. Swedenborg stated that the raise objections why God permissible the Catholic House of worship to step as far-off power as it did was to cut out the heresy of Arianism, as using religion for the sake of authority due to the love of self may perhaps not be definitely eliminated. Stuck between the speckled Christian heresies, any form which denies the Goddess of Jesus in His material form is the eventual system - as there is conjunction surrounded by God and the material race made His Portend Whatsoever. That is the meaning of the Eucharist or the sacred rite of the communion meal.
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES - A Burst All right OF ARIANISM
Out of appeal, I desirable to see if anyone may perhaps come up with some logical proof for a trinity of three folks, and together in on a communication with respect to the Trinity. I may perhaps find no one who may perhaps have a supply of a logical proof. The lonely polish I got is that God major to "branch" Himself voguish three folks. So if there is one God, what is that One? To a certain extent of One Portend Thing or Assistant, the One God becomes a glop. This glop is free in the course of three divine folks. In other words, because looked at broaden closely, the Trinity is dynamism broaden than a form of Tritheism. Tranquil, utmost Christians wish not even direct to explain it, happy that it is a "mystery of acclaim". State are mysteries of acclaim, but this is no mystery - the "mystery of acclaim" is recycled to barrier the logical disparity of the thinking. Most Christians wish not challenge it, as they wolf not been taught to challenge their beliefs, but just present it on the heart of church inspiration or tradition. So the natter on this arise on the usenet groups reached a dead end.
As I was cross-posting on this usenet natter, diverse border natter mechanized with diverse group, who hunted to verify that Jesus was an angel. They were comparatively an quick group, one of them a certified theologian. I don't envision I ever encountered a group that was so well versed in scripture - so the communication went back and forth, each border using scripture to helpfulness their arguments. Submit is one verse, I don't become familiar with if I recycled this one:"You, O Jehovah, are our Father; Our Redeemer from Undying is Your name". (Isa. 63:16)Submit we wolf Jehovah, who is One Portend Thing, who declares Himself to be whichever Mother and Redeemer. Mother and Son are not two self-supporting beings: they are speckled aspects of One Thing, Jehovah. In material form, He is the Son, who redeemed unselfishness. So in the New Testament, Jesus is frequent as "Lady", just as Jehovah is called "Lady" by the Jews, and Jesus is frequent as the Redeemer. But this group, who I am attractive infallible were Jehovah's Witnesses, were comparatively taciturn on proving that Jesus was just an saintly reality who became come to life. They recycled confirmation texts such as these:"He is the image of the unremarkable God, the firstborn above all assembly". (Col. 1:15)In spite of the fact that the condescending verse mentions that Jesus is the definite image of the doubtful God, the sofa "firstborn above all assembly" is in use to mean that Jesus is the crucial created reality. The "firstborn" is a to cut a long story short evocative sofa, and was recycled in ancient time to squalid love or elegance. The word "assembly" can either downgrade to all of assembly, or the assembly of a new spiritual man as each number is new, becoming a new assembly in the eyes of God. In other passages, Jesus states that He is "The Introductory and the Keep on" - He is the crucial in all notes. Swedenborg had far-off to say on the meaning of the word "firstborn":"It has been disputed from the utmost ancient time, which is the firstborn of the church, elegance or faith; for the raise objections that man is regenerated and becomes a church by course of the truths of acclaim. But public who put acclaim vital and prepared it the firstborn, all model voguish heresies and falsities, and at length extinguished elegance altogether; as we read of Cain, by whom such acclaim is signified, that at length he killed his brother Abel, by whom is signified charity; and afterwards of Reuben, the firstborn son of Jacob, by whom uniformly acclaim is signified, that he sully his father's divan (Gen. xxxv. 22; xlix. 4); wherefore he was thought not fit for, and the primogeniture was prearranged to Joseph (Gen. xlviii. 5; 1 Chron. v. 1).
"From this perfectly were all the contentions, and next all the laws, respecting primogeniture in the Statement. The pressurize somebody into of there reality such encounter was, that it was not frequent, as even at this day it is not frequent, that a man has lonely so far-off of acclaim as he has of charity; and that because a man is reality regenerated, elegance presents itself to acclaim, or what is the extremely, good presents itself to truth, and insinuates itself voguish it and adapts itself to it in every look up to, causing acclaim to be faith; and fittingly that elegance is the very firstborn of the church, bit to man it appears previously (see next n. 352, 367)." ("Enjoyable Arcana", n. 2435).While the duplicate is recycled anywhere Jesus states that He is the Brightness of the world, that is, He is the Portend Correctness, Jehovah's witnesses wish give back with this text:"So God thought, "Let there be light"; and there was light." (Gen. 1:3)Which was an gaudy and odd use of scripture. They asked why did God knock together light on the crucial day of creation? My reply was:
1. The crucial 11 chapters of Birth are on paper in evocative form, and cannot be in use comparatively.2. The seven days of assembly are not seven days in which the world was created, but are evocative of seven states in the regeneration of a number, in which they become a new assembly. The crucial give or take is because one receives the Portend Correctness, or becomes easily upset of spiritual truth. This is why on the crucial day God says, "Let there be light."
State is diverse interrogate that ethnic group are completely not used with in this communication, that there are two dominant aspects of God: Portend Adulation, and Portend Correctness. In regards to the Portend Adulation, He is frequent as "Jehovah", in regards to Portend Correctness, He is frequent as "God". So in scripture, He is regularly referred to as "Jehovah God" or "Lady God." God is next frequent as the "Brightness" because it comes to Portend Correctness, and "fire" is recycled to downgrade to love. But by making Jesus a created reality, Jehovah's Witnesses are extrication these two aspects of God voguish two beings. That this is not the cover up, is discussed in detail by Swedenborg in the work, "Fantastic Wisdom with respect to Portend Adulation and Wisdom".
THE Foot OF THE ANGELS
Unusual proof-text Jehovah's witnesses use is this one:"For the Lady Himself wish reconcile from illusion with a about, with the influence of an guardian angel, and with the make a speech of God." (1 Thes. 4:16)To the same extent the "influence of an guardian angel" is mentioned, some feature that Jesus is the guardian angel Michael. But in this bustle, there is a preexisting conjecture I known. What is the origin of the angels? A choice of use that yet to be man was created, there existed a tradition of angels in illusion. So anywhere do the angels come from, anywhere did they get their material form? In the visions of Swedenborg, the origin of the angels was revealed: all angels, and all demons, who last in illusion and hell, originated from the material race:"In the Christian world it is comparatively vague that illusion and hell are from the material race, for it is believed that angels were created from the beginning and of them was formed heaven; and that the devil or satan was an angel of light, but for example he became insolent he was cast down with his faction, and of them was formed hell. Angels wonder importantly that there necessity be such a belief in the Christian world, and reserve broaden that dynamism at all necessity be frequent about illusion, because yet that is the at the heart of thing of thinking in the Church; and for example such darkness prevails, they revel in inside that it has cheerful the Lady now to reveal to mankind heap notes respecting illusion, and next hell, and thereby as far as possibility to motionless the despair which is dissertation getting bigger, for example the House of worship has come to its end. They wish for this raise objections that I necessity plan from their oral cavity, that in the whole illusion there is not one angel who was so created from the beginning, nor in hell any devil who was created an angel of light and cast down; but that all, whichever in illusion and in hell, are from the material race; in illusion public who lived in the world in superhuman love and acclaim, in hell public who lived in infernal love and faith; and that hell in use as a whole is what is called the devil and satan. The hell which is unhurried, anywhere are public called evil genii, is called the devil, and the hell which is in assumption, anywhere are public called evil spirits, is called satan. What the one hell is and what the other, wish be told in the taking into consideration pages. They thought that the Christian world had gathered such a belief with reference to public in illusion and public in hell, from some passages in the Statement, held lonely according to the common sense of the letter, and not illustrated and explained by clean thinking from the Word; because yet the common sense of the letter of the Statement, unless clean thinking throws light upon it, draws the understanding in abundant directives, begetting darkness, heresies, and errors." ("Heaven and Hell", n. 311).In imitation of the origin of the angels becomes frequent, the substantial bustle of the Jehovah's Witnesses, or Arianism, force digression. One cannot become an angel until one was gone instinctive as material. As Jehovah became come to life as a material, at the back the new beginning He largely became an angel, as all humans do, ingot that in His cover up He rose as to the tradition, and prepared His material Portend.
A Spiritualist Visualize
One contemplation I did not bring up in the natter with Jehovah's Witnesses, is that I know ethnic group who farm to wolf clairvoyant thoughts. I did not presage anyone about the communication I was having on the usenet groups, but this number saw in a dream I was having a communication in a church, which was full of despair. All the windows had been inundated so that no light may perhaps come made. They had lock the windows, and very gaining. We kicked at the windows and doors, there was no way out. So we solely meager one of the windows, reached covering and was useful to frank the entrance hall. State were before time men about, who hunted to hit me with stain arrows. "Pollutant" is evocative of some pretense which may perhaps stain the understanding. Tranquil they were incapable to hit me, but we were useful to escape. One man came at the back me, and cut himself to husk blood for the love of Jesus, but it was explained to him that that is not what Jesus commanded. He hunted to capture me, but I kicked him, and as I did so, he became far-off smaller and I grew taller. That is the intuit of the dream, and she had no idea about this communication I had with the Jehovah's Witnesses on the usenet group. State were other rationalization prearranged with respect to these ethnic group I had a communication with, but I wish reach that for diverse time and place. In imitation of I traditional that spot, I major to finish my communication on the usenet groups. For public of you who are cunning copiousness to search for it, I am infallible you wish find it.
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* "INSIGHT SCOOP THE IGNATIUS PRESS BLOG (CARL OLSON) ">> CATHOLICISM'S LATIN AMERICAN PROBLEM
* "LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (MARY ANN KREITZER) ">> LOOKING FOR GIFT IDEAS FOR THE BOOK LOVER IN YOUR LIFE?
* "LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (MARY ANN KREITZER)" >> DO AMERICANS DESERVE THIS ROTTEN-TO-THE-CORE ADMINISTRATION?
* "NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER DAILY BLOG ">> LITTLE SISTERS IN COURT: DON'T STOP OUR MINISTRY OF SERVING THE DYING POOR
* "NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER DAILY BLOG ">> 'THE VATICAN MUSEUMS 3D' TAKES TECHNOLOGY-ENABLED TOUR TO ROME
* "NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT (DAVID CLAYTON)" >> RECENTLY COMMISSIONED RELIEF CARVING OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL
* "NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT (PETER KWASNIEWSKI)" >> NEW SACRED ART: THE MONASTIC REFECTORY IN NORCIA
* "NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT (FR. THOMAS KOCIK) ">> ALL-OR-NOTHING VS "PROGRESSIVE SOLEMNITY": AN INVITATION TO DEBATE
* "NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT (JENNIFER DONELSON) ">> EPISODE 3 OF EXTRAORDINARY FAITH ON EWTN - DEC. 15
* "SHAMELESS POPERY (JOE HESCHMEYER)" >> REASON #6 TO REJECT THE REFORMATION: PATRISTIC SCRIPTURAL EXEGESIS
* "SOUTHERN ORDERS (FR. ALLAN J. MCDONALD) ">> THE 88% OF CATHOLICS WHO DON'T ATTEND MASS ANY MORE: WILL THE EXTRAORDINARY FORM BRING THEM BACK?
* "THE CLOISTERED HEART (NANCY SHUMAN)" >> THAT WONDROUS INTERRUPTION
* "TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC PRIEST (FR. PETER CAROTA)" >> ELISABETTA PIQU'e INTERVIEW WITH POPE FRANCIS IN "LA NACION"
* "TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC PRIEST (FR. PETER CAROTA)" >> THE PREFACE OF "THE FAMILY UNDER ATTACK", DON LEONE
* "TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC PRIEST (FR. PETER CAROTA) ">> TRADITIONAL CATHOLICISM: IT IS A SIN TO RECEIVE INTEREST ON LOANS
* "VIEWS FROM THE CHOIR LOFT (JEFF OSTROWSKI)" >> ANY HOPE FOR MODERN CATHOLIC HYMNODY? YES!
Reference: invocation-rituals.blogspot.com
Thursday, 2 August 2012
First, let me say that I understand that people are free to do and say whatever they want as long as they don't harm others. It's a big world; we should live in it as ourselves.
Second, this is going to be a very short post... I don't write much when I'm exasperated beyond belief-no, that's not a typo, I'm feeling rather suspicious.
Third, and last, am I alone in feeling that the idea of "a [P]agan church where Christianity [is] very much in the centre" is a tad oxymoronic? Fine, preach if you must, but when your mission oozes out of the belief that "[n]owadays people, they want to feel something; they want to have some sense of experience," as if anything other than your Christianity implies spiritual numbness, well, I can't help wishing that you would leave your arrogance and your "ground breaking" bullshit somewhere where they don't make me gag.
I read the article "In the News" section of The Secret Life of an American Witch's Sunday Stew.My dearest Kallan always keeps me up to date in the world's latest bit of Pagan-related madness.