For those who ever thought about leaving the Craft
Hi Everybody
This subject seems to be popping up more and more over the past couple of years. Especially when the Christian Leaders start waving their fingers at what they call sinners. I have to admit, that the very subject has crossed my mind from time to time, and I have wondered, what if I'm wrong, and I am really sinning against God. But I never set it aside, I kept digging deeper
in my studies from all sources that I could get my hands on to.
What has kept coming up over and over again, is prophetic dreams, visions, meditations that while searching in the bible, which is considered wrong,
has been practiced by these very same people who condemn them. I have to ask my self, Why? Why is it ok for you to foretell the future, but not ok for me? This in my view point is a valid question.
Then recently I have discovered about the Lost books of the bible, and I discovered something very interesting in the book of Enoch here it describes where the fallen angels mate with the daughters of men. It goes on to say:
And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments,
and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when
men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.
So here it is talking about how these angels who taught women to be witch like. So from a Christian standpoint this is good reason to abstain from these practices, simply because this lore is taught by demons, but, what do scientists and the doctors practice? Where would they get their medicines from if not from roots, berries, leaves and so forth? I then have to ask myself this question, Would they be able to teach any of us these things if it were not possible? In other words, if we are capable of doing stuff like this, then what else are we capable of doing? Lets look at things from a different perspective, we are not meant to fly, yet we take metals of the earth and refashion them and create giant machines to mimic what birds can do, is this wrong? Would this be considered a demonic practice? After all all through out the scriptures it states that the angels, were traveling in Chariots of fire, would we not be mimicking them?
There have been many writings that have surfaced within the past century, revealing a great deal of things. We also have to remember that many of these great mysteries have been kept in the great libraries of Egypt, if
these libraries haven't fallen into dust and suit, what would the world be like today? If the Spaniards have left the ancient writings alone in South America, what truths would we have discovered? Just what is a Mystery
anyway? It is knowledge that hasn't been understood yet. After all, we all have heard the question, if a T.V. was shown to George Washington, he would have suspected it to be a form of witchcraft would he not?
We have to remember something, just because we don't fully understand how something works, does not make it demonic. I am not against Christians, I used to be Christian, I also understand that Christianity has a purpose to fulfill, and until the time comes for it to pass, it is here for now for the time being. But we also have to understand this point. This is something
that I have been made aware of years ago, and recently have been reminded of and learned a little more about it. Constantine unified the first Christian Church. What does that mean? It means that in order to unify something, one has to bring it together. So in other words, Constantine brought all the Christian leaders together to unify them. During their time, they had as
about as many Christian doctrines as we do today.
What was going on is Constantine wanted to become Christian, for many reasons, which I do not need to go into, but he had a hard time choosing which one he wanted to join, so what he did, was he brought them all
together and told them that he wanted a unified Christian Church. He told them to bring all their writings together and they had a budget, a time line
and the goal was they could choose what ever they wanted in the bible, they could fashion how ever they saw fit, but it was to be a unified bible and fifty copies were to be made and each church got their own copy.
Many books were dismissed for various reasons, if you want to view the books that have been left out that were part of the original bible you can go to this site, which I have been looking over for quite a bit, but you can go here if you want to view them for yourself, but remember that this is only a small portion of what was omitted. http://www.carm.org/lostbooks.htm
Some books were omitted because they simply said things that they didn't want others to get the wrong idea about, such as where did Cane get his first wife, which was his sister, they didn't want incest going on in their worship for an example.
what I am trying to say is the bible that we know of today, was voted on in Constantine's day. It is not all that was meant to be. So I have to honestly ask my self, do I want to base my faith on scriptures that have
been forcibly designed by a ruler who was a known tyrant?
Then too, take a careful look at the God of the Jews, and a careful look at the God of Christ, are these the same God or two different Gods? The God of
the Jews always seems so angry, and punishes, whereas the God of Christ is kind and forgiving. Has this ever struck anyone as odd?
If the first several books were written by Moses, then how could he have written about his death?
What I am trying to say is, as a person who has and still is an active student of the bible, I can tell you that to many clues leave questions that many ministers do not want to address, and they need to be addressed,
because if the Christians are correct, our very lives depend on knowing what is truly expected of us. But some of the questions I have raised here, as well as other questions, have been treated with ill regard, and the excuse of getting out of answering them is to accuse me of not having faith. They are valid questions, even if one feels it is insignificant, it should still
be addressed with a valid answer. I feel that honoring God and to worship to him should not be a guessing game.
At one time Paganism was known the world over, then Christianity, now it seems that the Muslims are on the move of migrating inward. Which brings this thought to mind, because I had talked to Kerry a little bit about it, also a couple of others, but all the women that I've been coming across have endured tests of one form or another that really test the spirit of the feminine. Our wits, wiles, courage, determinations, and everything else have been tested beyond reproach.
I have to mention to the rest of you from what I've kept to myself for the most part, only because I really haven't figured it out completely. But for
the past year I have been receiving visions of a New Avalon. Now I don't know if this is metaphorical or not, but it seems that when I get these messages, they are speaking literal. Actually the first time I heard of it
was from Isis, about three years ago. Each year I get a little more information. But as I look over my notes from each of these visions, they all correspond with the others. This year however, I received the most of
them.
I really don't know what to make of it at this time, but I can tell you that the Goddess/es are reclaiming what was once theirs, and to be an incarnate of something or someone else no longer suites them. From what I'm noticing is that women are being tested on many issues especially those related to where they stand on a spiritual level. I can't help but wonder, are we
being tested to see how strong we really are, that can we be what is expected of us for a greater reason that we are unaware of at this time? How easily can we be swayed in desperate situations?
I have made mention of all these things because I have noticed from a few women that they have questioned their problems as being caused by the craft, I too have done the same thing, so I know that there are many more out there have had the same question for themselves. I questioned because at one time I was Christian, but not everyone here can say that. I have talked to my
mother who is still Christian, she has posed things to me to question, as well as flipped threw the channels listing to T.V. Evangelists talk about Harry Potter and how the US of A is under attack because we have lost our
way from Christ. Things that I have been taught long ago still haunt me in the back of my mind, wondering if what I'm doing is right or wrong.
But I have to tell you, I still have the same questions about Christianity, than I did when I was there, and I have many more to go along with them. Is Christianity the answer? For me NO, for me it still leaves much unanswered, and the attitudes are very much the same. I can't speak for others, only myself, but I can pose to you the questions that I have had.
I have come to Earth based traditions because they teach more like the way Christ did when he himself was on earth, the Christians today are no different than those who claim to be Wiccan. What I mean by this is, many
have claimed to be Wiccan, yet mesh together what suites them, rather than following what Wicca itself really is. Christians today are no more Christ like, any more than that of a Wiccan is really Wiccan like.
What ever our course is on our destined path, what ever path that each of us may follow, our guides will light our way. No tradition, or religion has ever been truly followed in a true sense. How we learn from them, what we gather from them, how we connect with them is for our own. What ever each of us decides to do, from this day is ours.
Mydnyght
)0( May you find peace and happiness with in the Grove
Many blessings to you, )0(
~*~ Lady Mydnyght Rose ~*~
