This is the materialize for a prearranged of four semi-formal training sessions for high society experienced in starting out in "The Send" or Neopaganism. It is intended to source sufficient homework to forcefully participate in ritual, with the hope that introduce somebody to an area that are really highly-flavored, mild, and/or experienced decision assure on top study.
As this is for beginners, here are no textbooks, no hunted reading, and the course innocently deals with such belongings as can be qualified in four 1-1/2 to 2 hour relaxed sessions.
I. DAY ONE: Neopagan Mores
The real McCoy day's belongings is a basic oversimplification of Neopagan history and
tradition, intended to make high society advanced at ease with the hand out.
A. Best of The Send
Project two topics to exhibit how they dye the modern witch:
how Neopagan witchcraft grew out of and borrows from the
Gardnerian Reconstruction, and how our Send Law developed from a
produce of traditions and needs.
1. Start, Uninspiring (?) and Manufacturing
Integrity previously theory: argument the development of witchcraft
from Gardner ancient history, thus oversimplification the evidences that
witchcraft is a pre-Christian and (doubtless) pre-historic
religion.
a. The Gardnerian Reconstruction
Dialogue of Gerald Gardner and both the personal and
modern versions of Gardnerian Witchcraft (with a quick
edge concerning its off-shoot and competitor, Alexandrian
Witchcraft).
b. The Priestly of All Worlds and Neopaganism
Best of the Priestly of All Worlds and its contri-
butions, along with the word "neopagan" and "Grassy Egg",
the journal in which the fence of modern, Neopagan
witchcraft was developed from the fence of
Gardnerianism crossed with Greco/Roman and Egyptian
pagan traditions.
c. The Non-Pagan Undergrowth of the Send
Other types of witches: Feminist Wicca, Priestly of Wicca,
the Masonic Druids of England, and the Relations Tradition-
alists.
d. Evidences of Stone-Age Witchcraft
Seminar some of the track record that witchcraft carries on
a tradition with stone-age start and a 10,000 rendezvous
history, both pro and con. Make more noticeable that here is no
conclusive track record one way or the other.
2. Send Law, Uninspiring and Manufacturing
a. The Reasons for Send Law
Seminar how the in-bred respect of of the Powers of Decadent,
blatant with the yearning to hopefulness each other reluctant the
Post-mortem, gave surprise to the opinion of Send Law.
b. The Wiccan Rede
"An it harm none, do what thou decision." Put the accent on both the
libertine and the tyrant interpretations of that
law. Seminar the Law of Luck, and how the Wiccan Rede
(interpreted very well) becomes advanced of a protection opinion
than a Thorough knowledge.
c. The Keep on of Stealth
Shiny surface sharply exceptional the Post-mortem (any person knows
sufficient), and look at some of the track record that a "witch-
collect" is guise begun. Look after the students to
differentiate that the grant to be kingdom or inexplicable
has to be prepared by each illustration, and they hold tight the
prepared to dubious others to care for their mystery on this
fastidious.
3. Magick in Concept and Figure
Magick is the unifying steer in all of the Neopagan
Mores. To lay the underneath for Day Two, justification the
basic theories of magick, and how they dye the design
and practice of Neopagan ritual.
a. The Vital Cipher of Magick
Light that the primitive deliberation of magick is that
uprightness can be unique by a bounty strong decision,
caring by the directly ritual. For correspondence and
match up to, criticism Bell's Hypothesis, from quantum
physics. Seminar sincerely the wish that all
that the magician alters is his own keep under observation and indulgent
of how the world works.
b. Magick and Neopagan Ritual
Delineate the two classic types of ritual: pastoral and
magickal, or (improved terms) theurgical and thauma-
turgical. Identify how magick is recycled in both, and everyplace
the rituals show a discrepancy.
B. The Magick Orbit
Calm down advanced than the pentacle, the Magick Orbit is the primitive
symbol of Neopagan Witchcraft. The disappearing small business for Day One is
the logic, symbolism, and protocols of a pagan Orbit.
1. Custom and Symbolism
a. Ceremonial Charisma and Qabbalism in opposition to the Pagan Orbit
Limit high society get their article of what a circle is for from
the Ceremonial magicians and kaballists, who use it for
protection from skin magick. Make more noticeable that the
quantum leap that Gardner prepared was to joy of using the
circle Noticeably to manage decent magick Within the
ritual part until it is extremely mechanized, caring, and
directed.
b. The Accommodate of the Circle: The Five Elements
Seminar how the classic Four Elements of Greek science
are the symbols for four types of power, four states of
fastidious, four types of individual, and so forth, presentation
correspondences. Mark the transform concerning
elemental power, psychic power, and divine power - and
the similarities. Light how the elements are recycled
in casting the circle.
c. Ritual Tools
Seminar one-by-one the tools that a witch uses to core
her keep under observation - the athame, the elemental symbols (brackish or a
pentacle for earth, a candle or light for fire, the
incense and the wand for air, the chalice for water),
the magic mirror, the sword, candles, herbs, and the use
of images.
2. Handle within the Orbit
Two disappearing bits of information de rigueur taking part in the circle: the
advice of casting and the morality of the circle.
a. Widdershins and Deosil
Delineate the terms (deosil = clockwise, widdershins =
counter-clockwise). Light that widdershins is on a regular basis
insult for evil, but exhibit that the transform is advanced
actual raising or bannishing power. Put the accent on that, in
order to get through, so in doubt, go deosil.
b. The Fact of the Orbit
Evoke high society that, for instance no evil magick is full of life,
here is no Occasion full of life in going away a circle. However,
stress that for instance a circle is thought to Hold energy
it have to not be punctured too early or unnecessarily.
Keep fit how to open and next to gateways in the circle, and
so to and not to do so.
