Have you ever wondered why you are where you are? What led you to that place? What steps you took on your travels? I have sat many nights thinking about this. How did I end up where I am? What did I do?
The witch who travels the spiritual path to be one with the Divine eventually comes to a point where they seem to have been given the most severe tests. After all the witch gives up most of their attachments; i.e. the pleasure of eating, of sexual union, of bodily comfort etc. to reach an evolved state. At first all energies are focused the knowledge and conversation with the HGA.
In the teachings of Malachem, there are divisions that the 3 Kingdoms of the Systema Natrurae can be found. These divisions are characterized as Life, Self, World and Realm. There are 2 aspects to Life; Your Life and Your Magickal Life. There are 3 aspects of the Self; Middle Self, Lower Self and Higher Self. There are 4 aspects of the World; Middle World, Dark World, Light World and the Spirit World. Finally there are 5 aspects of the Realm; Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Astral Realms.
The pentagram is a common symbol in witchcraft. It represents the five elements of Spirit, fire, air, water and earth. A quick google search and you can find out all kinds of information on this symbol. What I am focusing on is the Double Pentagram, one upright and one inverted.
I had a great conversation with a friend of mine named Steve and he had made a statement that really brought out a different viewpoint on life. He said that we should not live to work but instead we should work to live. What a profound statement! When I heard this I immediately thought to myself that life is an experience that is why we are “human beings” and not “humans doing”. It is our being that enables us to live and if we spend our time devoted to the “man” then we do not experience the wonders of life.
The witch's runes are a very old divination system using ancient symbols burnt onto pieces of wood or carved into pieces of stone and cast as lots. Some believe these symbols to be derived from the pictish runes, which date back thousands of years.
"Another wonderful sculptured stone has been discovered at Mail, Cunningsburgh – the ninth inscribed stone to be found there in the past 130 years…The graveyard where the stone was uncovered has been a center for religious belief for 2,000 years, and may have been a center of cultural or political power during the Pictish era." – Shetland Museum News June 2008 |
AuthorSince the early 1990's I have been a student of the occult.
Studying everything from Shamanic practices to Ceremonial magick. All of which,
through the lens of Witchcraft. Archives
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