“The emphasis is strongly placed on the celebratory nature of the Mysteries and as such their rites are practised as the autotelic re-affirmations of religious beliefs. This is valuable as far as the traditionalist is concerned as it will ensure the preservation of the rites and symbols even when they are not fully understood by those practising them. Nonetheless it is diametrically opposed on one level with the deliberate and conscious use of humankind’s religiosity as a technique encoding the transmutability of belief rather than an emphatic dogmatizing of the Forms in which we believe. It is the power of believing itself rather than the power of icons in which we believe that is the key distinction. The initiate of the Old Craft will believe to make a thing true rather than because he or she, might consider a thing to possess an inherent truth. This is not to say that he or she disbelieves in the innate power of certain facets of magical iconography; rather that he or she will be led to the realisation that all such facets are expressions of the pure form known as ‘The Witches’ Sabbath.’” — Andrew D. Chumbley
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 10:30:54 +0000
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