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It is important to learn and share our experiences with each other; in doing such we can continually co-create Wicca as a truly living religion. There is a tremendous amount of wisdom and beauty in the eclectic nature that has come to be so popular in Wicca. It is the very reason many of us have found our spiritual homes in practicing Wicca. However if we are to survive the tests of time and scrutiny by others as a religion we must agree on some basic ideas. To gain wisdom requires understanding.
The understanding of self- including psychological and historical or ancestral understanding as well as the understanding of ones environment- including the physical understanding as well as the spiritual understanding of the natural cycles of life, earth and the cosmos both current and historical and the ever changing relationships between them. We must come to an understanding that the mother Earth is a spiritual entity in her own right, with her own relationships being carried out among the cosmos. Nature is the divine will among that cosmos, not something confined only to our Earth mother. It is our purpose as a whole to listen and help our mother earth carry out her cosmic destiny as well as our own; and not to hinder her, nor our own, progress on the sacred journey to fulfilling those destinies.
To this end the Goddess gave us magic in perfect love and perfect trust to lessen the blows that the necessary duality of nature brings. We are all connected through the web of life- All things past, present and future. All creatures, great, small, human, animal, plant, mineral, and other. We all have our parts to play in “Her” cosmic destiny as well as our own. Time is not linear, but cyclical, and there are no four words that ring of truth more than, “As above so Below”. Death is not an end to all, just a change of the physical, through which rebirth or reincarnation, especially through family lines or spiritual ties is possible. What you put out into the cosmos will return to you, through the web of life, three fold, for good or ill, like ripples in a pond. This applies not only to your magical workings, but also to your daily living.
The Goddess and the God are equal halves of a divine circle, one should not hold importance over the other, for to truly understand either, you must seek out and come to know both. The many Gods and Goddess’ are divine reflections of cosmic Being, they are full-fledged spiritual entities in their own rights, yet they are mere reflections of the cosmic All, as well as reflections of each one of us. The true source of divinity should be sought from within ones self not outside and detached from Nature. As such we are the co-creators of our reality with the divine. The universe is not a thing of “creation”, but a living thing birthed of Nature.
