Counsel To An Elder
If you don't know who you are by now, then choose whom you desire to be.
Listen much. Speak little.
When the teacher is ready to learn, the students will come to teach.
You can affect the lives of others, but in the end, their lives are their responsibility.
Coyote has a standing invitation to your life, issued by Himself.
You may live to be a hundred, but will you have lived a hundred years or the same year a hundred times?
Always have a rubber trout or its spiritual equivalent on the altar.
We are by nature a young and frolicsome species. Never consider yourself too old to play.
All you have seen or sensed in every God/dess is within you.
Bless all about you. Blessed Be.
(Author Unknown to me..If you know please let me know and I will be delighted to credit him/her.)
Bertrand Russell's 10 Commandments
1. Do not be absolutely certain of anything.
2. Do not think it worthwhile to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
4.
When you meet with opposition, endeavor to overcome it by argument and
not by authority,
for
a victory dependent upon authority is fleeting and illusory.
5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think to be pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
8.
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement,
for
if you value intelligence as you ought, the former implies a deeper agreement
than the latter.
9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
10.
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise,
for only a fool would think it to be happiness.
Thirteen
Commandments for Witches
I. Keep your word
II. Mind your own business
III. Think before speaking. Words cannot be unspoken.
IV. Judge, don’t be judgmental. There’s a difference.
V. Tell the truth. If a Lie is the only way to keep from doing harm, keep silent.
VI. Care for the Earth
VII. Honor and nurture all life.
VIII. Feed your mind, body and spirit equally
IX. Observe, don’t interfere.
X. Take a wide view of others’ behavior, a narrow view of your own.
XI. Pay attention. The Gods are speaking to you.
XII. Remember, you are not the God/dess
XIII. Remember, you are the God/dess.
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Lady Aisling DreamRange, 2003. All Rights Reserved
Beginner's Bibliography
So..reading about Wicca or Witchcraft, hmmm...? Here is a "Basic Craft 13" list I give my students...good places to start out right...the ISBN number is all you need to order the book from any bookseller of your choice.
A
Witches' Bible Janet
and Stewart Farrar ( ISBN: 0-919345-92-1)
An
ABC of Witchcraft Doreen
Valiente ( ISBN: 0-919345-77-8)
Ancient
Ways Pauline
Campanelli ( ISBN: 0-87542-090-7)
Myths
To Live By Joseph
Campbell ( ISBN: 0140194614)
The
Way of the Goddess Ly Warren-Clarke
( ISBN: 1-85327-006-7)
The
Practice of Witchcraft Today Robin
Skelton ( ISBN 0-8065-1674-7)
Witchcraft:
The Sixth Sense Justine
Glass (ISBN 0-87980-174-3)
A
Wiccan Bardo Paul Beyerl (ISBN 1-85327-036-9)
Drawing
Down the Moon Margot Adler(ISBN 0-8070-3253-0)
The
Western Way Caitlín
and John Matthews ( ISBN: 0-14-019462-2)
The
Holy Book of Women's Mysteries Z.
Budapest ( ISBN: 0914728679)
The
Spiral Dance Starhawk(ISBN
0-06-250814-8)
Positive
Magic Marion Weinstein (ISBN 0-919345-00-X)
Needless to say, there is now, unlike the sixties when I began doing my Craft, a VAST amount of available literature out there. So it is a good idea to check the bona-fides of the authors and the texts you choose to base your knowledge on, in order to weed out the dreck and the absolutely unethical. Here are a few guidelines for doing that.
Aisling's Bookshit Detector
It's bookshit if:
Recommended Reading
There are, however, many reputable authors out there on a variety of subjects. Here are some:
CELTICA
John and Caitlin Matthews R. J. Stewart Janet and Stewart Farrar Nigel Pennick Alwyn & Brinley Rees Jean Markale Philip Carr-Gomm Emma Restall Orr Ellen Evert Hopman Peter Beresford Ellis |
GENERAL
CRAFT
Starhawk Pauline Campanelli Margot Adler Marion Weinstein Z. Budapest Justine Glass Doreen Valiente Gerald Gardner Raven Grimassi Francesca di Grandis Paul Beyerl |
TAROT
& DIVINATION
Mary Greer Rachel Pollock Angeles Arrien Eden Grey Dion Fortune Gail Fairfield Ellen Cannon Reed Dion Dolphin
|
PHILOSOPHY
AND ETHICS
Joseph Campbell Robert Graves Teilhard de Chardin Riane Eisler Jean Shinoda Bolen Carl G. Jung Pythagoras Bruno Bettelheim Mary Daly R. J. Stewart Robin Wood Judy Harrow
|
WORTCUNNING
Paul Beyerl Scott Cunningham Ellen Evert Hopman Pattalee Glass-Koentop Terence McKenna Roisin Carroll Steve Blamires |
ASTROLOGY
Sydney Omarr Alice Bailey Julia and Derek Parker Maria Simms Michael Bayley NIcholas Campion The Rosicrucian Order |
HISTORY
Joseph Campbell Colin Wilson Stephen Hawking Daniel Boorstin |
LORE
& LEGEND
Alwyn & Brinley Rees John & Caitlin Matthews Bruno Bettelheim W. B Yeats Charlotte Guest Lady Augusta Gregory WYE Evans-Wentz |
VARIOUS
(books
for the well-rounded Pagan)
The Pythagorean Sourcebook K. S. Guthrie In Search of Schroedinger's Cat John Gribben The Masks of God (all volumes) Joseph Campbell Truth or Dare and Dreaming the Dark Starhawk Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom J. & C. Matthews The Chalice and the Blade Riane Eisler |
I'm
Not Done Yet....
Here is a collection of diverse, but interesting and useful, online resources for Wicca, Witchcraft, Mysticism and general weirdness:
Wicca
101 @ Red Deer's & Elenya's
The
PaganPath
sidri
's Home Page
Onyx
Dimensions
Raven's
Flight
Moonstone
Circle
The
Witches' Voice
A
Mystickal Grove -
Circle
Sanctuary
Pagan
Web Resources
Wiccan
Links/ Celtic Connection
Welcome
to Gypsy Moon Emporium
The
Wiccan & Faerie Grimoire of Francesca De Grandis
Sun
Dragon Wicca Page
The
Celtic Connection
Covenant
of the Goddess
back
to Wisecraft