Welcome to the Door

Welcome to the doorway of the Root of the CircleWitches

Here you will see the diffrent faces of the ways
of magic(k) and learn to discovery your own face,
the reason many study magic(k) in the first place......

you will see the nature of all things that call to themselves
to be of the light or shadow, but just remember a
magic(k) user of any form can tell if another is in their area,
by their aura or energy they give off...
so be sure this is the direction you seek, cause when
it is fully realized you will be in it up to your cloak...
and (god or goddess) help you if your not truthful,
cause nature will not.........


So you seek to be awitch, or are you one, persay?
Well do you know their truths and their workings or have you
like most of those who think books might have all the answers
everything, you see here will challenge that view, if you do..
and then perhaps you might find a new page to
add to your empty book.......of shadows (if you have one)

So your mage or a magi?
Do you know of the house? Do you know of the 7 steps
of beginning and the 9 steps of ending, or are you one
who has read that mage is from a craig or crowley viewpoint,
What is the "Mylix Ain and Non"?
perhaps you will see here.....

So your druid huh?
Did you know druids were woman?
and later married into to be a male community of both...
or do you still believe in the druid priest of the celts, lol
( how do you think they got their secrets ?, faery persons(lol)
well you will see here, not all is as it is said.....

Ceremonial Magic-users?
The Ones who use the ancient books (Elders/Ancient)
of Faust and abra-merlin, lol what about the rituals
of the gateways, they still use the corners,
perhaps the books have only one answer,
the info, others buy into them, that is perhaps,
why i like the grimores, they tend to be lest wordy....
(here you will learn magic(k)'s direction......and
why crowley was only half right.....

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Then again you can learn the way the witch does............


Its' all in the harmony and how you play the strings.......(lol)

 

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goddess of old....

Nov 10, '08 12:53 AM by Luxas for everyone

wizardryl

Historic Roots of Wicca and Goddess Religions In Egypt, the Hebrews had known the worship of the Goddess as Isis or Hathor. For four generations they had been living in a land where women held a very high status and the matrilineal descent system continued to function at most periods. Judging from the number of Hebrews who emerged from Egypt in the Exodus, as compared with the family of the twelve sons who supposedly entered it four generations earlier, it seems likely that a great number of those Hebrews known as Israelites may actually have been Egyptians, Canaanites, Semitic nomads and other Goddess-worshipping peoples who had joined together in Egypt. Archaeological records and artifacts reveal that the religion of the Goddess still flourished in many of the cities of Canaan long after the ! Hebrews invaded. What are some of the modern day applications of this long history of Goddess worship? For an answer to this, let's look at an encapsulation of the "herstory" of the legend of the Universal Goddess as taught to the new entrants to the Faerie Tradition in 20th Century America. According to the legends of the Faerie, Witchcraft and magick began more than 35 thousand years ago, when the last ice age in Europe began and small bands of nomadic hunters followed the free-running reindeer and bison herds. They were armed with but primitive weapons ( Stone Age, remember?), and had to lure or chase the animals over a cliff or into a pit to kill and eat them. As Starhawk says,"...some among the clans were gifted, could "call" the herds to a cliff side or a pit, where a few beasts, in willing sacrifice, would let themselves be trapped." As the last ice age retreated the tribes of nomadic hunters worshipped the Goddess of th! e Wild Things and Fertility and the God of the Hunt. Semi-permanent homes were set up in caves carved out by the glaciers. Shamans and Shamanka conducted rites within hard to reach portions of the caves, which were painted with scenes of the hunt, magical symbols and the tribes totem animals. The transition from Hunter-Gatherers to agriculturists was reflected in the change of the "Lady of the Wild Things and Fertility" to the "Barley Mother" and the "God of the Hunt" to the "Lord of the Grain". The importance of the phases of the moon and the sun was reflected in the rituals that evolved around sowing, reaping, and letting out to pasture. Villages grew into towns and cities and society changed from tribal to communal to urban. Paintings on the plastered walls of shrines depicted the Goddess giving birth to the Divine Child - Her son, consort and seed. The Divine Child was expected to take a special interest in the city dwe! llers, just as His Mother and Father had taken an interest in the people who lived away from the cities. Mathematics, astronomy, poetry, music, medicine, and the understanding of the workings of the human mind, developed side by side with the lore of the deeper mysteries. Far to the east, nomadic tribes devoted themselves to the arts of war and conquest. Wave after wave of invasion swept over Europe from the Bronze Age onward. Warrior gods drove the Goddess' people out from the fertile lowlands and the fine temples, into the hills and high mountains, where they became known as the Sidhe, the Picts or Pixies, and the Fair Folk or the Fairies. The mythological cycle of Goddess and Consort, Mother and Child, which had held sway for 30,000 years was changed to conform to the values of the conquering patriarchies. In Canaan, Yahweh fought a bloody battle to ensure that his followers had "no other gods before me." The Goddess was given a! masculine name and assigned the role of a false god. Along with the suppression of the Goddess, women lost most of the rights they had previously enjoyed. In Greece, the Goddess in Her many aspects, was "married" to the new gods resulting in the Olympic Pantheon. The Titans, who the Olympians displaced were more in touch with the primal aspects of the Goddess. The victorious Celts in Gaul and the British Isles, adopted many features of the Old Religion and incorporated them into the Druidic Mysteries. The Faerie, breeding cattle in the stony hills and living in turf-covered round huts preserved the Craft. They celebrated the eight feasts of the Wheel of the Year with wild processions on horseback, singing and chanting along the way and lighting ritual bonfires on the mountain tops. It was said that the invaders often joined in the revels and many rural families, along with some royalty, could claim to have Faerie blood! . The College of the Druids and the Poetic Colleges of Ireland and Wales were said to have preserved many of the old mysteries. *** In the late 1400's the Catholic Church attempted to obliterate its competitors, and the followers of the Old Religion were forced to "go underground." They broke up into small groups called Covens and, isolated from each other, formed what would later be known as the Family Traditions. Inevitably, parts of the Craft were forgotten or lost and what survives today is fragmentary. After nearly five centuries of persecution and terror, came the Age of Disbelief. Memory of the True Craft had faded as non-members who could remember how they once had met openly died and those who came after never knew of them. All that was left were the hideous stereotypes which were ludicrous, laughable or just plain tragic. With the repeal of the last Witchcraft Act in England in 1954, the Craft started to re-emerge as an a! lternative to a world that viewed the planet as a resource to be exploited. Janet and Stewart Farrar, in the introduction to The Witches Goddess say of the modern re-emergence of the Goddess " ..may well prove to be one of the most significant spiritual, psychic and psychological developments of our lifetime". They have since done a wonderful job of presenting an overview of the ascendancy and history of the expression of the masculine principle of deity as e pressed by Male God-forms and Gods with their book The Witches' God. What do the Farrars consider this "masculine principle" to be? "...it represents the linear-logical, analyzing, fertilizing aspect, with its emphasis on Ego-consciousness and individuality, while the feminine principle represents the cyclical-intuitive, synthesizing, formative, nourishing aspect, with its emphasis on the riches of the unconscious, both Personal and Collective, and on relatedness." As mankind ! started to develop his cultures in directions that were more male dependent in the nature of the cultures, the emphasis in religion shifted to become more male god than female goddess oriented. As this happened, the Goddess(es) lost ground to the God(s). At first, the female aspect merely became secondary to the male, but eventually the male took over and dominated to the total exclusion of the female, particularly in western society as we know it today. "The first major god-form to claim a monopoly of divinity was the Hebrew Yahweh, from which in due course sprang the Christian and Moslem forms." "Dr. Raphael Patai, in his books Man and Temple and The Hebrew Goddess shows that the Goddess Asherah was worshipped alongside Yahweh as his wife and sister in the Temple at Jerusalem for 240 of the 360 years the temple complex existed, and her image was publicly displayed there." There is also evidence that the Jewish community at elephantine in Egypt a! cknowledged two goddess-wives of Yahweh, and also there still remains in Ezekiel (xxiii)a metaphorical reference to a pair of wives, where Yahweh condemns the "whoredom" of two sisters who "became mine and bore me sons and daughters".    (in these things is the wisdom and worth, find out which is which..)