The word Witch carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet to reclaim the word Witch is to reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful; as men, to know the feminine within as divine.
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The ascetism of early Christianity, which turned its back on the world of the flesh, had degrenerated, in some quarters of the Church, into hatred of those who those who brought that flesh into being. Misogyny, the hatred of women, had become a strong element in medieval Christianity. Women who menstruate, and give birth, were identified with sexuality and therefore with evil. All witchcraft stems from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable, stated the Malleus Maleficarum.
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The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun.
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As women, however, we need to look very closely at these philosophies and ask ourselves the hard-headed, critial question, What's in it for me? What does this spiritual system do for women? Of course, the gurus, teachers, and ascended masters will tell us that, even by asking such a question, we are merely continuing in our enslavement to the Lords of Mind; that it is simply another dodge of the ego as it resists dissoulution in the All.
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On every full moon, rituals such as the one described above take place<br/>on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers,<br/>teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers,<br/>and auto mechanics - women and men from many backgrounds come<br/>together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance<br/>of Life. The religion they practise is called Witchcraft.
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.
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