The Universal Herbal Handbook for Wicca and Witchcraft E-Book

Doris Barnhart

• Herausgeber: A & M publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

You have arrived at the Wicca and Witchcraft domain. This beginner's guide to the mystical world, drawn from my own Book of Shadows.
The Goddess and Human HistoryThe Dark One's Daughter
The Distinction Between Traditional Witchcraft and Contemporary Wicca
Part One of Appolonious's Biographies in The Buzzing of Bees: Cabot
5 Enigmatical Truths Research Paper on Keller Part Two of His Biographies: Clutterbuck and Fox
If you are seeking a deeper relationship with God and the natural world, this book is the first step. Uncover a world of limitless possibilities!
 

Leseprobe

The Universal Herbal Handbook for Wicca and Witchcraft

First-Held Knowledge on the Path to Wicca and Witchcraft

BY

Doris Barnhart

Table of Contents

A Common Book of Witchcraft and Wicca—why is it necessary?

Chapter: 01

Now we may think about the following consequences:

Now we need to define Divinity:

Chapter: 02

Simplified Chant

Chapter: 03

A Song of Remembrance

Chapter: 04

The views expressed here do not reflect those of any other Magickal Media writer, contributor, or employee.

Chapter: 05

Alexandros of Tyrann

Linda Bettett

Arthur Buckland

Deborah Butt

Roland Cabo

Chapter: 06

The One We Worship

Chapter:07

Hey there!

Ascending Knowledge via Divination

Realizing What the Ocean Views

The Prophecy of the Hall of Records

The Emerald Tablet

Advice on Divination

Approaches to Divination

Speaking as Seth:

The Opinions of Others Could Be

Disparaging mutterings

Chapter:08

Hey there!

The Preface:

Acquired Information:

God:

Individual liberty:

Chapter:09

Chapter:10

Chapter:11

Chapter:12

Theodora Cloutreck

CUNNINGHAM, SCOTT

The Pandan

Theodora Dugan

Felicity Fox

Chapter:13

Chapter:14

Chapter:15

A coven of magic-users

Have a reasonable amount of members (13 according to tradition)

Maintaining privacy

Honesty

Firm Faith

Keep going

Chapter:16

Chapter:17

Chapter:18

A Common Book of Witchcraft and Wicca—why is it necessary?

Copyright-free resources pertaining to Wicca and Witchcraft are included in the Common Book of Wicca and Witchcraft. Without asking anybody else for permission, you can share everything in it. Made with the intention of being shared, these resources are now available to the world. Why? Simply said, we think that the best way to make the world a better place is to spread information. Just why, though, is witchcraft involved? When did Wicca come to be? Witchcraft, why? A witch's craft is the practice of reality manipulation. The Witch manipulates her external environment by drawing on her inner magical powers. However, there is more to witchcraft than meets the eye. An essential aspect of reality molding is the concept of self-sufficiency, or the belief that you should not rely on others to meet your needs but rather take charge of your own life. Being self-reliant is a result of knowing that you have the power to influence your own world. Many people are afraid of witchcraft because of this. Dependence on the activities of others—whether those other persons be governments, "experts," charities, religions, or Gods—has been inculcated in the majority of people from an early age. Dependency is taught by most other groups, and independence is feared above all else. From the beginning of time, most organizations have also learned to manage their members by making them rely on them.

Because Wicca is rooted in the natural world, its adherents believe that all of life, not just their immediate surroundings, is part of nature. Knowing that everything is precious, the Witch studies and attempts to comprehend everything. While our understanding is grounded in the spiritual, it also incorporates scientific principles. Though we may disagree with the atheistic mainstream scientific community on certain issues, we do not reject scientific concepts altogether. We aim to create a world where magic and science coexist, where old and contemporary knowledge are held in equal measure. Plus, we have faith that we shall witness that future. We shall come back because we understand that death is just one side of a coin that is always being flipped. It is imperative that we give thought to the future, not just that of our descendants, but of ourselves as well, as we shall be reincarnated into it. People who believe they only have a finite amount of time on Earth are more likely to trash the earth and deplete its resources because they don't give a hoot about the consequences and instead focus on the here and now. What we leave behind when we die is also what we inherit when we are reborn; this is something we who practice the incarnation sciences are aware of. Our outlook on life on Earth and the future changes when we realize that the Soul is everlasting and has several lifetimes. Neither the end of the world nor Armageddon can save us from the results of our choices. We shall be reincarnated into the world that we create, thus it is up to us to take responsibility and create the world that we want to live in, according to the Witch.

Chapter: 01

The Aginees: The Devotion to Her Nativity

William Golding proposed the moniker "The Gaea Hypothesis" in 1972, and this article is the first written explanation of it. It was the direct outcome of Oberon's lucid dream on the evening of September 6, 1970. On September 11, 1970, this "revelation" was preached to the people of the church of All Worlds. Afterwards, it was featured as the main article in Green Egg, a Neopagan journal, Vol. V, No. 40 (July 1, 1971). It was later reprinted in the first issue of The Witches Broomstick magazine (Feb. 2, 1972). It was also excerpted in Dr. Leo Louis Martello's book, Witchcraft: The Old Religion (University Books, Inc. 1973). Finally, it was given as a keynote speech at the Third Annual Gnostic Aquarian Festival in Minneapolis, MN, on September 21, 1973. In anticipation of the April 6–10, 1988 symposium on "Gaia Consciousness: The Goddess & the Living Earth" at the California Institute of Integral Studies, this revised and expanded version is now in production. Different faiths have different conceptions of the Divine, and adherents of different faiths frequently misinterpret, in a horrifying way, how other faiths view the Divine. Liberals will argue that all religions essentially worship the same Deity, under different guises and customs, whereas conservatives of a particular religious system often feel that all other religions are "false" except their own and that other people worship the Devil. Both of these perspectives attempt to fit other worldviews into their own experiential frameworks while drastically misrepresenting the essential differences among the world's faiths.

One may argue that all faiths are "true," just as all honest ideas are, because everyone's perception of reality is unique. Put simply, your beliefs are real because they are your understanding of the world. Like being "saved" by Christian fundamentalism or adhering to kosher requirements by Orthodox Jews, a Voudoun death-curse is very real and powerful to the victim. The medieval worldview, which held that the Earth was flat and the planets and stars revolved around it, was just as real as our own modern understanding of the solar system and the globe. For those experiencing hysteric paralysis or blindness, these conditions are just as real as any other physical disability. Addicts experience the terrifying paranoiac environment as well as the venomous snakes and bugs of drunken and narcotic delirium. What we see is reality, and hence "true," since, from the perspective of human awareness, there is no reality other than what we perceive. The only way to tell the difference between subjective experiences and those based on fact is to compare notes with other individuals and come to an agreement. Nevertheless, this general agreement is not only susceptible to individual opinions but also has the potential to diverge from objective truth (as in the instance of the Geocentric universe). "How can we know objective reality?" is the subsequent inquiry that develops. and the obvious response is no, we can't. On the other hand, by combining scientific rigor with creative thinking and by not relying on haphazard "leaps of faith" to bridge knowledge gaps, we can get very near to objective truth. Therefore, religions can be ranked according to their degree of reliance on blind faith and belief rather than scientific understanding; the extent to which they prioritize tradition and authority over intellectual curiosity and honesty; the extent to which they can incorporate new scientific discoveries into their theories and worldviews; and finally, the degree to which these discoveries support their beliefs. It is important to note that all religions are subjectively true. These are the standards by which religious beliefs may be objectively tested. You don't even need (or even want) to consider subjective validation.

By constantly dividing and subdividing into the countless cells eventually needed to make up an adult body, a single cell physically evolves into a human person. Groups of cells specialize to create the many organs and tissues needed for the organism to function fully. The mother cell really divides into two daughter cells during cell division, rather than staying intact. The presence of identical protoplasm in both the mother cell and the daughter cells indicates that they continue to function as a single organism, a single live creature. Though it dies out in its natural state, the original cell lives on in the evolving organism. Therefore, despite the fact that many cells inside the adult human body may be highly specialized and some may even be able to move around autonomously, the three trillion or more cells that make up the body nevertheless function as a single living entity. No matter how intricate the adult organism's structure is or how diverse its cells are, the protoplasm, the life-giving substance that was present in the initial cell, remains within each and every one of them. Because gametes, also known as sex cells, are a part of this ultimate diversity of a single original cell, reproduction passes this genetic material on to future generations while also introducing them to the protoplasm of the other parent. Your children, although physically separate from you, are just as much a part of your living, changing organism as your blood cells or somatic cells, which can be removed and grown in separate cultures, or any other part of your body. Your offspring are a continuation of you, even if their bodies include other types of cells, since your protoplasm is still alive in them. And in the children who follow after them, for the rest of time. There will always be only one living being made up of all the cells of your descendants.

Looking back across our evolutionary tree—which spans about four billion years—we find that every single living thing on Earth descended from a single cell. This includes mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and every other kind of animal. There were probably a lot of proto-cells in those ancient seas (or clays, as it is now believed—OZ, 1988), but the first one to learn to reproduce would have eaten up all the free amino acids and proteins in the water, effectively killing off any other potential rivals. If left uncontrolled, the incredible geometric pace at which cells reproduce would submerge the whole globe in a matter of months. Clearly, a scarcity of food, which would have included both newly-formed and unformed competing cells, was the limiting factor in this otherwise remarkable reproductive capacity. Like the human body, this primordial mother cell kept on being just one complete organism even after it multiplied and kept on reproducing for millennia, with some of its daughter cells changing and developing into new forms. It makes no difference how many times a cell divides or subdivides; each successive generation of cells receives the identical cellular material, protoplasm, and life force. The sum of all the new cells will always be an organism, regardless of how frequently or for how long this division occurs.

One is arbitrarily called "right-handed" (D, dextro) and the other "left-handed" (L, levo) because their spatial relationship is similar to that of a pair of gloves. When it comes to physical characteristics and chemical composition, the two forms are one and the same. They wouldn't be different if they didn't both spin a beam of polarized light in the opposing directions. The quantity of D and L forms generated by laboratory amino acid syntheses is now equal. More recently, in 1970, NASA announced that they had found 17 distinct amino acids in a meteorite, nearly evenly distributed between D and L forms. Naturally, there can only be one of these two variant forms in any particular cell; otherwise, every protein in the cell would include D-acids. And whatever shape the mother cell had will be carried over into the daughter cells during cell division. We would expect to see certain plants and animals with D-acids and others with L-acids if all life on Earth did not begin with a single cell. But that's not true; the fact that ALL LIFE ON EARTH CONTAINS ONLY L-AMINO ACIDS is a well-established biological truth. None of the known living things on Earth contain the corresponding D-acids. That all life on Earth is comprised of a single living organism is, therefore, a biological reality. Indeed, we are all "One." Not the blue whale nor the redwood tree, but the entire planet biosphere is the biggest living thing on Earth.

Now we may think about the following consequences:

There are many different kinds of organs that make up an organism, with more complex organisms having more organs than simpler ones. Groups of cells in an embryo differentiate into the specific tissues and organs that an organism needs as it grows. It is possible to transfer non-specialized cells from one area of the embryo to another during the early phases of cell differentiation; these cells will continue to differentiate into the appropriate organs in their new homes. Just so, for the Planetary Organism (which I will now refer to by its scientific name, "Terrebia") to operate correctly, it requires a number of organs.

Keeping with the human body metaphor, every living thing on Earth is like a little cell in the enormous galactic body. In our biospheric being, each biome—including all of its plants and animals, trees, insects, grasses, predators, grazing ungulates, etc.—is like an organ. Biomes include pine forests, coral reefs, deserts, prairies, marshes, and more. Everything in a biome is necessary for it to work, and every biome is necessary for Gaea to work properly. It is feasible that relatively unspecialized "cells" of plants and animals may undergo adaptive radiation differentiation to become all the necessary components of a biome if some crucial aspects were to be removed or destroyed. The most striking example of this in the modern era is the radiation of marsupials in Australia after the dinosaurs died out, which filled all the ecological niches formerly filled by placentals with species that were structurally and behaviorally indistinguishable from their placental counterparts. In addition, several works on evolutionary genetics, such as Biophilosophy, which were published after 1970, emphasize that contemporary Darwinian theory does not hold that an organism's genes dictate its evolutionary trajectory. Instead, it's as if the whole species knew exactly where it needed to go; it just migrates to a lucky ecological niche. The species will increase its production if all mutations pointing toward that change are eradicated.

For Gaea, what is the ultimate fuel, her "food?" Light from the sun, which forms the Biosphere from the elements of the Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, and Atmosphere via photosynthesis in plants. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that a biomic component's presence in an ecological niche within a certain biome is due to the fact that the component is intrinsic to the biome and, by extension, to Gaea as a whole. Also, it's likely that an exclusionary species isn't present in a certain biome if you can't find it there. The fact that removing, replacing, or rearranging human body components will not allow the body to operate normally is now common knowledge. Even if you manage to pull through an amputation, you won't be able to walk like previously. We are now painfully learning that Gaea is subject to the same concept of coherence. It would be extremely detrimental to the environment to eradicate all bison in North America, bring rabbits to Australia, clear-cut or burn whole forests, or till the Great Plains and sow wheat and maize without causing significant disruption. Do you recall the dust bowl? Australia's rabbit problem? Floods in the Mississippi basin? A recent dry spell in the American Southwest? Because Gaea is an organism in and of herself, it is not permissible to alter her structure in any way, even by removing or replacing her pieces. Similar to how the brain and nervous system are the final parts of the human body to mature, the Noosphere, which includes all of Earth's Homo sapiens, is the last galactic biome to form.

In our role as the Noospheric organ and the "brain" of our planet, what exactly do we do? At this point in time, it seems like a biome of awareness's job is to protect the planet's environment. It is our duty as a species to ensure that Gaea's essential systems remain undisturbed and that her entire organism operates at peak efficiency. By how well we carry out this organic duty, we may be able to gauge how well humanity is doing in the cosmic domain.