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Posted by Spirit Dancer
on October 26, 2009, 5:49 pm, in reply to "Re: When does a Witch stop being a Witch?"
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1. I think that it is more important for us (practitioners) to be more skeptical than muggles (non-practitioners). When you dance with gods and play with natural forces, you should ask questions. You should know every detail that you can know about what (and who) you are dealing with.
This is the reason that I believe that magick should be taught as a form of formal science (alternative science or abnormal science). Keeping it in the shadows, makes it both mysterious and frightening. If we could regain the mainstream respect that it once had, we could prevent a lot of mishaps that are attributed to ignorance and curiosity.
My wish for the future aside, I think that we (practitioners) have a responsibility to look at all of the angles (as a scientist would). We should experiment with our work, before deeming it successful. We should live for the investigation as if we were the lovechildren of Merlin and Sherlock Holmes.
That isn’t to say that we shouldn’t have faith in our work (or in magick). I am merely saying that it shouldn’t be enough to know that a spell, gris girs, or invocation is effective. We should strive to know why it is effective. Through, that knowledge, we may find out that godhood is a mere discovery away.
For example. Take another look at Celeste’s definition of String Theory.
“If you look at say the 'String Theory', all energy anywhere at a sub atomic level is just 'strings' that vibrate at different frequencies and basically means that the universe is sort of like a cosmic symphony. The energy can be manipulated and changed, but not created or destroyed.”
Doesn’t this sound strangely familiar to the ancient belief that a trio of female goddesses called the Fates once looked over (and occasionally manipulated) a loom which held a string for every life on the planet? Thousands of years ago, people all over the known world believed this version of String Theory to be fact.
Imagine if we could move String Theory to String Fact. If we could say, with absolute certainty, that this is the way it is. We would not only have confirmed the belief system of ancient nations. We would’ve have figured out (on some level) how the “loom” actually works. That understanding (even if it had no practical purpose on this plain) would change how we live our everyday lives.
2. I have personally found no evidence to suggest that a “grand design” is at work. While, it does seem that some things are fated to happen. I think that this is more a matter of spiritual maturity than designation.
I know this may sound strange, considering that I am one of the few people here to acknowledge a specific pantheon. Much of my work is under the tutelage of or in partnership with specific deities. But, in Voodoo (and its kind), though there is a version of the Divine named Olodumare. His role, as we know it, is more akin to a great-grandfather.
It is this way with all of the relationships between humans and the pantheon. The tie that binds is more ancestral than the traditional idea of “godly.” The Loa and Orisha are our elders. Despite that some of them were never human, their race has somehow influenced or commingled with ours. Through nature, we are all one race.
(I hope not to offend anyone directly with this next statement. It is merely my opinion on the subject)
I have always thought that the “grand design” made a very simple concept quite convoluted. With the exception of a rare few species, all living things in this world have a similar cycle. Two existing life forms (and the energy between them) come together to create a new life form. That life form is raised to maturity. Then, it finds another life form to repeat the process.
I have yet to see any reason to believe that we do continue to evolve in this fashion. I intend to guide my children, and their children, as my ancestors have guided me (meaning issues support to them when needed as my ancestors do). If they elect to believe that it is the “Will of God,” that is the name that they have given to the seemingly miraculous event that was in actuality my helping, fatherly, hand.
“Mother is the name for God in the hearts and minds of children everywhere.” –Brandon Lee (The Crow motion picture)
And, on that note, I am concluded.
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