Cyber Cauldron

Going through my Book of Shadows this morning I came across this and though I would share I hope JR Grover does not mind but it is only 21 years and I am not sure if it is available anywhere.

I used to have this in my office at work as it gave me confidence in my early days in the craft to come out and be a proud witch

You are politely but firmly requested not to discriminate against our pagan and spiritual heritage.

As pagans, witches and Druids, we have every right to express our views and practices. Our traditions with the fall protection of British and international law.

The last remaining laws prohibiting witchcraft in Great Britain were repealed in 1951.

This was necessary to bring British law in line with the United Nations universal declaration of human rights, which states:

Article 18
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public Private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Adopted and proclaimed by the Gen assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948.

Compared to various Christian persuasion is (a religion of Middle Eastern origin), particularly those of its recent forms of fundamentalists and similar sex often seem ill informed, even ignorant of the original and sacred spiritual heritage of the British Isles. We would encourage them to at least learn about our ways; any scientist will inform them that to criticise with out a reasonable comprehensive grasp of the subject renders the criticism invalid. The blind prejudice frequently expressed against paganism by such people is often the result of such gross ignorance. Here are the two basic areas of information which will dispense with many major misconceptions.

1 Satanism, and the devil
Satanism is an offshoot of that Judaic Christian. Islamic tradition it is then invention and has nothing to do with the symbolic horned God of the witches and pagans come up, which exists as a symbolic representation of the masculine characteristics of nature’s fecundity long before the Judaic Christian and Islamic traditions were culturally developed from Samaria Arcadian and the late Egyptian religious concepts (i.e. monotheistic panentheism). The devil is solely part of the Judaic Christian Islamic pantheon of deific characters. In 1484, Pope Innocent 8th published a bull classify our pagan symbols as personification of their devil. And so on, infighting and promoting deliberate religious persecution and genocide. Pagans (and Christian is deemed heretics), of all persuasions have been so treated by religious authorities from as early as 307CE, and in Europe to date at least 9 million have been tortured and killed by heretic and witch hunts (an academic has recently identified some 35-45,000 recorded arraignments and executions solely of those accused of being witches. In some cases of those countries, and only a few countries were Christianity was the enforced belief system – and those from only a tiny proportion of such records still exist).

2 learn your heritage
the pagan heritages of all nations are the original roots from which the modern religions sprang. These religions usually arose from a significant or, divinely inspired person capable of seeing the armed. The strictures of their cultural norms, who gave guidance to the ordinary people, to enable them to survive conditions. The less perceive Could not comprehend. Inevitably, these charismatic individuals designed their message from earlier knowledge; they are often known to have been educated in earlier traditions, which enable them to see the wider picture – and far at least. As their particular culture would enable them to stop. It is an unfortunate fact that the less adaptable followers tend to create institutions, which often become power hungry to the extent of denying their originators background. For incense, read the Venerable Bede, on the slaughter of the entire pagan population of the Isle of Wight in 686CE. Reid also a bonus (decline and fall of the Roman Empire), and the actions of the Valentitian and Valens. This was long before the Inquisition, where in many celibate Christian monks, refined methods of torture, mainly of women, with zealous enthusiasm. Nowadays, surely all religious except the rights of others, religious freedom of expression? Simply read the exact wording of their current dogma in the light of their history and find out. Then learn your pagan heritage and the concepts behind our traditions; it is your birthright, which they had tried to deny you. As pagans, we are pantheists; we recognise the supernality as intrinsic to existence itself, the order by which time and space and fold, and we find monotheistic panentheism, a pre-existent creator god childishly absurd in a scientific aware world. Our quaint and beautiful symbolic minutes, ceremonies and deities, allegories the processes of nature and existence, and celebrate the existence of humanity as part of the whole. After all, your existence is a result of the evolutionary nature, despite absurd creationist modern sects born of inward looking religious self-delusion. We are happy to coexist with other spiritual paths, and perfectly willing to discuss their validity of each other as core beliefs and morals and natural supernality.
As inheritors of the pagan knowledge, we conceive of Jesus Christ as a magnificent example of a middle eastern known scientific folk of their 2160 year Piscean age, now ending As we enter the Aquarian age. As starch, we have due respect for this figure, and his true followers who wish to peacefully coexist with other spiritual traditions, but not for the Christian churches with their appalling record of genocide, torture, material acquisition suppression of other spiritual traditions, including those from which they descend, their involvement with fascists and various oppressive governments, their suppression of winning, their coal industry a dark and murky politics, and perhaps above all, their doctrinal denial of every human being is divine right to seek spirituality. Based on reality, not confined by an enforced dogma. Nowadays, we do not live under the tyranny of an enforced belief system. Paganism is currently the fastest growing spiritual cosmology. In this land, at least, and a dogmatic religions are declining as progressing human knowledge about our universe, its origins and ours are no longer censored by religious dogma. This is because the pagan principles are absolutely appropriate in a word, where environmental concerns focus attention on the necessity of looking after this beautiful Earth, and of course, there is no contradiction between the experimental concepts underlying pagan knowledge and the knowledge developed through scientific discovery.

After 2000 years of oppression. We say never again! We feel we have the right to express our freedom with the support of decent people throughout the Wales. If you have come across discrimination against pagans weather, which is truth or others including Third World pagan folk. Please inform the perpetrator that they are in violation of internationally enforceable law against religious discrimination and are liable to arrest and prosecution because the civilised governments of the world regards such prejudices as immoral and unacceptable.

Copyright 1990 JR Grover

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Originally posted 2011-05-18 10:33:33. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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