These Are The princples of Wiccan Faith created by the american council of Witches
We practice rites to attune ourselves with the natural rhythm of life forces marked by the phases of the Moon and the seasonal quarters and cross-quarters.
We recognize that our intelligence gives us a unique responsibility toward our enviroment.
We seek to live in harmony with nature, in ecological balance offering
fulfillment to life and consciousness within an evolutionary concept.
We acknowledge a depth of power far more greater than is apparent to the average preson. Because it is fr greater than ordinary,
it is sometimes called "supernatural", but we see it a lying within what is naturally potential to all.
We cocnceive of the creative power far greater than is manifesting through polarity--as a masculine and feminine--and that this same creative Power lives in all people, and functions through the interaction
of masculine and feminine. We value neither above the other, knowing each to be supportive of each other. We value sexuaility as, pleasure, as the symbol an embodiment of life, and as one of the sources of energies used in magickal practice and religious worship.
We recognize both outer worlds and inner,
or psychological worlds-- somtimes known as the Spritual
World, the Collective Unconscious, the Inner Planes, etc.--and we see in the interaction of those two dimensions
the basis for the paranormal phenomenea and magickal exercises.
We neglect neither dimension for the other, seeing both as necessary for our fulfillment.
We do not recognize any authoritarian, but do honor those who teac, repect those wo share their greater knowledge and wisdom, and acknowledge those who have courageously given themselves to leadership.
We see religion, magick and wisdom-in-livivng as being united in the way one views the world and lives within it---a world view and philophy of life, which we identify as WitchCraft or the Wiccan Way.
Calling oneself "Witch" does not make a Witch--but neither does heredity itself, or does collecting titles, degrees, and ititiations. A Witch seeks to control the forces within him/herself that make life possible in order to live wisely and well, without harm to others and in harmony in nature.
We acknowledge that it is the affirmation and fulfillment of life, in the continuation of evoultion and delvelopment of the consciousness, that gives the meaning to the Universe we know, and to our personal role within it.
Our only animosity towards Christianity, or toward any other religion or philosophy-of-life, is to the extent that its institutions have claimed to be "the one true right and only way" and sought to deny freedom to other and to supress others other ways of religious practices and belief.
As American Witches, we are not threatened by debates over the history of the Craft, the origions of various terms, the legtimacy of various aspects of diffrent traditions. We are concerned with our present and the future.
We DO NOT accept the concept of "absoulte evil," nor do we worship any entity know as "Satan" or "the Devil" as defined in the Christian Tradition. We do not seek power threough the suffering of others, nor do we accept the concepts that personal benfits can only be derived by denial to another.
We work within nature for that which is contributory to our health and well being.
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