WICCAN PRINCIPLES
These are the thirteen wiccan principles
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 our intelligence gives us a unique responsibility toward our environment. We seek to live in harmony with nature, in ecological balance offering fulfillment to life and consciousness with in an evolutionary concept.
We acknowledge a depth of power far greater than is apparent to the average person. It is called “Supernatural?but we see it as lying within that which is naturally potential to all.
We conceive of the Creative Power in the universe as manifesting through polarity- as masculine and feminine- and that this same creative power lives in all people and functions through the interaction of the masculine and feminine. We value neither above the other, knowing each to be supportive of the other. We value sexuality as pleasure, as the symbol and embodiment of life and as one to the sources used in magical practice and religious worship.
We recognize both other worlds and inner and we see in the interaction of these two dimensions the basis for paranormal phenomena and magical exercises. We neglect neither dimension for the other, seeing both as necessary for our fulfillment.
We don’t recognize any authoritarian hierarchy but we do honor those who teach, respect those who share their greater knowledge and acknowledge those who have given of themselves in leadership.
We see religion, magic and wisdom-in-living as being united in the way one views the world and lives within it. A worldview and philosophy 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 the collecting of titles, degrees or initiations. A witch seeks to control the forces within him/herself that makes life possible to live wisely and well without harm to others and in harmony with nature.
We acknowledge that it is the affirmation and fulfillment of life, in continuation of evolution and development of consciousness, that gives meaning to the universe we know and to our personal role within it.
Our only animosity toward Christianity, or toward any other religion or philosophy of life, is to the extent that its institutions have claimed to be “the true, right and only way?and have sought to deny freedom to other and to suppress others ways of religious practice and beliefs.
As American Witches we are not threatened by debates on the history of the Craft, or the origins of various aspects of different traditions. We are concerned with our present and our future.
We don’t accept the concept of “the devil?nor do we worship absolute evil as defined by the Christian tradition. We do not seek power through suffering of others (nor do we accept the concept).
We work within nature for that which is contributory to our health.
