Magus: "Listen to the words of the Great mother, who of old was also called among men Artemis, Astarte, Dione, Melusine, Aphrodite, Cerridwen, Diana, Arianrhod, Bride, and by many other names."
High Priestess: "At mine Altars the youth of Lacedaemon in Sparta made due sacrifice. Whenever ye have need of anything, once in the month, and better it be when the moon is full, ye shall assemble in some secret place and adore the spirit of Me who am Queen of all Witcheries and magics. There ye shall assemble, ye who are fain to learn all sorcery, yet have not won its deepest secrets. To these will I teach things that are yet unknown. And ye shall be free from slavery, and as a sign that ye be really free, ye shall be naked in your rites, both men and women, and ye shall dance, sing, feast, make music, and love, all in my praise. There is a Secret Door that I have made to establish the way to taste even on earth the elixir of immortality. Say, 'Let ecstasy be mine, and joy on earth even to me, To Me,' For I am a gracious Goddess. I give unimaginable joys on earth, certainty, not faith, while in life! And upon death, peace unutterable, rest, and ecstasy, nor do I demand aught in sacrifice."
*******This is for everyone who thinks that the book series Harry Potter, the show Charmed, the movie The Craft, and all the other pale imitations of the spirituality of Wicca will lead people astray. Maybe some people notice the "occult" more after the media tells them to, but they will lose interest quickly when they see how deep it truly runs. Anyone who buys a book about Wicca in the week after reading Harry Potter will abandon it just as quickly; this person is a bandwaggon hopper, and is to be pitied. "If you do not stand for something, you will fall for anything."
Wicca is not witchcraft. This is the truth. There are Wiccans who are not witches, and there are witches who are not Wiccan. Wicca is a philosohy, witchcraft a practice. Just like how a rectangle is a square but a square is not necessarily a rectangle.
I also would like to make a plea to the Christian community at large to please become more educated about that which is so readily condemned. I read here that is is not the responsibility of a Christian to know what Wicca "is" but what it "is not." Wicca is not about Jesus, and so therefore must be about Satan. I understand this view even if I do not agree with it. But I would encourage more people to learn about what they do not agree with. Knowledge is a beautiful thing. Understanding gives peace. A black-and-white worldview has no dimension.
So here's a question: Who among you who have read the above quote were mystified, puzzled, disgusted, confused, angered, outraged, or just did not care? And how many of you know what is, who wrote it, where it's from, or when it was written? This is an elementary writing to anyone with basic knowlege of the occult. Trivia! Who knows it?
