| Cutting into the Circle | by Luxas for everyone |
As far as one knows paganism is the classical design to all non church related arts (such as Christianized) however thats a lie...it is a story fabricated to serve those whom wanted not the rules or images of church like design except "self worship" but like all things even it had to grow-up so it piggy backed off of the up and coming witchcraft and voodoo like shaman designs....truly paganism had its own diverse shaman/druid designs hidden well within it however it wasn't coming out..because they only had theory and no facts and no educators to usher in the newage.....(you got it newage) got involved......and suddenly witch/hoodoo and much more was running about with the name pagan.....
So witchcraft being seen as a new-movement started to pop up everywhere but without a name to its face, it was just story and coven and some come and go then there was a named council of witches, which had no real baring on witchcraft but it was something to do i guess, books and study and story and spellbooks fell from the sky....but then again no name.....
(then names like the craft, the witches nature and tools of the witches ways...brought forth Wica ( before wicca wicae and wittan was ever heard of...WICA was born and it was the name that would eventually unite the pagan and the shaman imagery which for my money i would have like to see do the other way about....and suddenly the "modern new witch" image was born......Glenda the good witch was now born and the fairy witch followed and then the hedge/kitchen and about a few more but the name of wicca started to be used by everything, and even found its way to the top of the pagan national charter.......(not bad for a thing that to this day still hasn't found its true meaning for being) much like paganism it was the title that gave it strength and the "witches name" that gave it respect and even a feeling of mastery.....but 45 years later nothings changed.......So the nocturnal witch was brought backout to confuse and astound the mixture of the good and bad witchcraft (lol a joke on both side it seems)
and the occult orders that grew such wisdom created a backbone after that and came in to study the witches workings creating their own rituals of conduct..within and advancing the pagan symbolism way beyond story......
But what about wicca, it grew in story and theory but never in witch image so they decided to add it as a context...you can be witch and study wicca or you can be wiccan and study witchcraft as a witch....(come on even i didn't believe that)
but yet i studied and i met others and they was lost and told me it was part of their belief so the need to define it as a religion was then created and so too did the books follow suit.....(like the next bibles out was.....the wiccan bible, the satanic bible, and the bible of witchcraft and paganism, lol all great books if you follow and not lead.......
So what was the goal of witchcraft the modern wiccan witch, to create a chain of wiccan teen witches and move them into the market with the teen wicca package, suddenly it was witch if your older and wicca if your younger and then it was one against another against religion against pagan choices against the wall.....(the modern witch image was fracturing) becoming a tool a market and not an image of self or respect or transformation of will as it started way back in the 1500's to try and do.....(so the old voices of leaders was forged) and suddenly the Eclectic witch was born, not wicca, not witch, not fully shaman, just an elder) which would have been very useful if it wasn't for the fact......Witchcraft as an art wasn't going to let the elders play at being mages/sages/or acolytes without collecting their own images in the arts as well.....(now in 2008.....) the witch is clearly defining itself from the models from which witchcraft as a term has been hidden by wicca/shamanism within.......
So about the time shaman "witches" was being grown....i started my journey into the mysteries of the witches design and from there it is clear to anyone whom is beyond mere faith....or religious undertones there is something awaiting for us right behind the mirror of our selfs and the candles light we romanticize about as we awaken within to find the mysteries of magic(k) and our connect to the universe in and about us.....
(oh, and don't get me started about the K........lol)
as far as i see it We whom are of the "root" are a dying breed not because we will be gone "we will never be gone fully" but because of the awareness that takes place when those dedicated to grander insight get lost in the petty images of times and fads and loose track of what we as "seekers" of more then just words wanted to understand........
but cut yourself a circle and see the beginning, bask in the candles and remember a time that the 5 lite as one, and in the end.....time stands still for us.....
| The Grand Great Secrets of Rites | by Luxas for everyone |
http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usor&c=words&id=12262
here is the idea of the great secrets but they are just beginning...
The Grand Alchemical truth of the Rites of nature (or the Great Rite) as defined by the wiccan text or the modern mythos is but a shadow of the full design in witchcraft legacy.....
It is the oldest of magic(k)al connections and performed by those un-worthy of its mystery....It is the process of the exchange of the secrets not of fertility and or a magic(k)al marriage as the practicing others would have you think but a union of something more and like the colors of alchemy it is just as difficult as to place in the hands of beginners or seekers of the simplistic rituals.....
so what does it do....?
why is it done?
what happens before after and during?
only one whom has developed the rituals in the proper context can tell you but because of its very select design it isn't going to be spoken of so easily...even by Me.....
but i can tell you planets collide when the ritual is done correctly.....
now thats wisdom......
here is the idea of the great secrets but they are just beginning...
The Grand Alchemical truth of the Rites of nature (or the Great Rite) as defined by the wiccan text or the modern mythos is but a shadow of the full design in witchcraft legacy.....
It is the oldest of magic(k)al connections and performed by those un-worthy of its mystery....It is the process of the exchange of the secrets not of fertility and or a magic(k)al marriage as the practicing others would have you think but a union of something more and like the colors of alchemy it is just as difficult as to place in the hands of beginners or seekers of the simplistic rituals.....
so what does it do....?
why is it done?
what happens before after and during?
only one whom has developed the rituals in the proper context can tell you but because of its very select design it isn't going to be spoken of so easily...even by Me.....
but i can tell you planets collide when the ritual is done correctly.....
now thats wisdom......
| Ask and ye will have to recieve otherwise don't... | by Luxas for everyone |
From: "S S"
To: AW
Subject: Re: Witches V's Shamans
They can be the same, they can be very different, depending on the Shaman, witch, wiccan, or Wiccan. I would consider myself a Witch, although no a wiccan, or a Shaman. There are some differences in all to some people. What is in a name anyway. Hell, you can call me whatever you want, I will still be me, and you will still be you with your views of me, whether they are right or not. The reason there are different names is because there are differences. But to some people, those who do not see the differences, they will for now and forever be the same.
Kind Thoughts and Blessings
S (L)
(my reply)
not to start a ...well you know.....
but the reason others can see like this is because they want to believe this or that and yes, that effects no-one, but when you call yourself this or that or take on the duties of this or that...uless you mean it as a game...then your free of anything other then your judgement..but when you venture into natures domain and put the dedication behind it, so will nature "call" you this and see if you measure up, its because of the freedom of words that value has little by interpretation however when you take a word most serious.so will the ones whom are of its example........
Luxas
| mis-conceptions of the fires | by Luxas for everyone |
From: "DSL"
Seeking Shamanic Teaching
For many years now, I have practiced a self-devised, self-taught, style of Celtic shamanism, inspired by my study of the Mabinogion and Arthurian mythos, and my training in
za-Zen. However, I believe I have reached a point in my practice where I require a more formal/systematic course of
shamanic instruction/apprenticeship, to fill in gaps in my skill-set, and to "take me to the next level," as it were.
(My Reply)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Luxas Aureaum"
To: AD vas DSL
Sent: re: Seeking Shamanic Teaching
Ah, Celtic Shamanism (sadly there is only the title and the Kel design stolen by the image of those seeking shaman like practices) celtic since the 1500's has been thrown about like a cat in a bag.......however it has become a fine thinking art with a lot of holes in it...(eclectic wiccan pagan-hood) i use to call it.......
this statement isn't placed here as a 'bad note in any who seek" shamanic design, its just a fact that it is much more then what the ones whom have evaluated the shaman design in paganism to be......(i for one had taken in my younger days to the study and then teaching of the shamans fire) but few have I offered more then most insight as to this path is both
word and action........and takes alot if you get beyond the Pagan image alone.......
(Paganism is a varying way of multi faith advancing images) and Shamanism is at the heart of this form of belief system, however over the years it hasn't been the art so much as the "artist" and they are culturally derived and varying in personal belief as well....so the name "shaman" is
now almost as advanced/multi as the now modern term pagan......
So a shamans design and not the shaman/shamana (another word madeup to differ the system of education)
is again lost in the fruits of development.....
I would say "namaste" but that again is just a word to mean hope you find what you seek.....
(instead of the blessing it is offered in)
( DSL REPLY)
Luxas,
I'm quite aware of the eclectic and syncretic nature of what its contemporary practitioners commonly call "Celtic Shamanism." STILL, it is that tradition(?)/style (leaning more toward the shamanic than the Wiccan/wiccan) in which I seek a more formal/structured course of training/apprenticeship.
Blessed Be,
i know that thats why i was talking to the un-spoken then just yourself...... and i wish you well on your journey, you have a lot to see....
| Witchcraft University | by Luxas for everyone |
Being
a Master Wizard i have seen designs go and come and change as time
rolls on, i normally hang my hat with the adepts and the mage/magiestery
of life's messages and magic(k)'s but i am finding that the witches
design and not just "witch workings" are getting abit lost in all the
designs about....good for that if thats what you sought to find.....
But as my time is advancing on, i am puzzled on how so many have insight but few have answers, so i am throwing my hat into the arena, and offering "free" witchcraft study and course designs within reason...and only by invitation.....
Because to me the "witches design is beyond that of personal dedication alone, it takes a spirit that wants more then just simple tricks but secrets, secrets that come from answers most don't want to fully understand unless it won't touch them in the end.....(and we know the score don't we folks.....ask and ye will recieve and action and reaction....are all in this understanding.....however when you graduate here you won't get a degree like you find in schools..you could but i would ask you to burn it later anyway....and besides its the education that proves you learned it anyway...but .....
I will not be teaching....."witch nature" oh, yeah we will be walking through it but i want to reveal the essentials of "witch-craft" not just the stuff you know but the stuff left out and the stuff removed and the stuff thought about and so-on...
but all good things in time......SO MOTE IT BE
But as my time is advancing on, i am puzzled on how so many have insight but few have answers, so i am throwing my hat into the arena, and offering "free" witchcraft study and course designs within reason...and only by invitation.....
Because to me the "witches design is beyond that of personal dedication alone, it takes a spirit that wants more then just simple tricks but secrets, secrets that come from answers most don't want to fully understand unless it won't touch them in the end.....(and we know the score don't we folks.....ask and ye will recieve and action and reaction....are all in this understanding.....however when you graduate here you won't get a degree like you find in schools..you could but i would ask you to burn it later anyway....and besides its the education that proves you learned it anyway...but .....
I will not be teaching....."witch nature" oh, yeah we will be walking through it but i want to reveal the essentials of "witch-craft" not just the stuff you know but the stuff left out and the stuff removed and the stuff thought about and so-on...
but all good things in time......SO MOTE IT BE
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