"We should educate people that 'Witch' is not evil but ancient and positive.
The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life." Margot Adler - Wiccan Priestess
The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life." Margot Adler - Wiccan Priestess
"When one defines oneself as Pagan, it means she or he follows an earth or nature religion,
one that sees the divine manifest in all creation.
The cycles of nature are our holy days, the earth is our temple,
its plants and creatures our partners and teachers.
We worship a deity that is both male and female, a mother Goddess and father God,
who together created all that is, was, or will be.
We respect life, cherish the free will of sentient beings, and accept the sacredness of all creation."
one that sees the divine manifest in all creation.
The cycles of nature are our holy days, the earth is our temple,
its plants and creatures our partners and teachers.
We worship a deity that is both male and female, a mother Goddess and father God,
who together created all that is, was, or will be.
We respect life, cherish the free will of sentient beings, and accept the sacredness of all creation."
Edain McCoy - Wiccan Author
"Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path.
You walk it for nourishment of the soul,
to commune with the life force of the universe,
and to thereby better know your own life."
You walk it for nourishment of the soul,
to commune with the life force of the universe,
and to thereby better know your own life."
Christopher Penczak
"Nature has her proper interest; and he will know
what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing
has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life." —
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing
has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life." —
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"We are not evil. We don't harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary people like you. We have families, jobs, hopes, and dreams. We are not a cult. This religion is not a joke. We are not what you think we are from looking at T.V. We are real. We laugh, we cry. We are serious. We have a sense of humour. You don't have to be afraid of us. We don't want to convert you. And please don't try to convert us. Just give us the same right we give you--to live in peace. We are much more similar to you than you think." Margot Adler
"If you take the Christian Bible and put it out in the wind and the rain, soon the paper on which the words are printed will disintegrate and the words will be gone. Our bible IS the wind and the rain." Herbalist Carol McGrath as told to her by a Native-American woman.
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action. -Lin Yutang
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. -Thomas Paine
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. - Robert A. Heinlein
"the Neo-Pagan religious framework is based on a polytheistic outlook- a view that allows differing perspectives and ideas to coexist""the Neo-Pagan religious framework is based on a polytheistic outlook- a view that allows differing perspectives and ideas to coexist"
-Margot Adler Drawing Down the Moon
-Margot Adler Drawing Down the Moon
"The magic begins in you. Feel your own energy, and realize similar energy exists within the Earth, stones, plants, water, wind, fire, colores, and animals."
-Scott Cunningham
-Scott Cunningham
"The most Beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the Mystical. it is the sower of all true science. he to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead To know that what is impeneltrable to us realy exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radient beauti which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primative forms- This knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religions."
-Albert Einstein-
-Albert Einstein-
