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Caitlyn Connor

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1734 Wicca

Alexandria Wicca

  • The 1734 Wiccan tradition was developed by Robert Cochrane.
  • The number "1734" is not a reference to the year. Instead, it is a cryptogram, a title for the name of the goddess.
  • There is no official hierarchical structure. It focuses on meditation, chanting, channeling, and visions.

Deities

  • Alexandrian Wicca was started in England by a witch named Alex Sanders (1926 - 1988) and his wife Maxine in the 1960s.
  • Growth declined later when it was discovered that Alex Sanders had been dishonest about his claim to be a hereditary witch.
  • The Alexandrian tradition focuses on ceremonial magic and has elements of the Kabbalah.
  • Polarities of The One: The Goddess and God are seen as a manifestation of the feminine and masculine forces of nature. Each having unique characteristics that when combined result in the harmonious creation of life.
  • The Supreme Creative Force: The unity of all things which exist. This includes our limited awareness and understanding as well as what is not understood.

Practices and Rituals

  • The Ancients divided the world into four basic principles or *elements* earth, water, fire, and air.
  • Magick is "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will”.

Wicca

History

The difference between “witch” and Wiccan

  • The medieval church of the 15th through 18th centuries created false associations with witches like evil, heathenism, and unrighteousness to convert the followers of the old nature based religions to the church's way of thinking.
  • Secondly, as medical science began to surface, the men who were engaged in these initial studies had a very poor understanding of female physiology.
  • Wicca is a belief system and way of life based upon the reconstruction of pre-Christian traditions originating in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. It predate Christianity by roughly 28,000 years.
  • With the discovery of these cave paintings, estimated to be around 30,000 years old, depicting a man with the head of a stag, and a pregnant woman standing in a circle with eleven other people.
  • Witchcraft in ancient history was known as "The Craft of the Wise"

Practices and Rituals

What is Wicca?

  • Wicca is a very peaceful, harmonious and balanced way of life which promotes oneness with the divine and all which exists.
  • To be a Witch is to be a healer, a teacher, a seeker, a giver, and a protector of all things.
  • Self-Dedication Rite: Draw a bath with a table spoon of salt and a few drops of oil. Once done, go somewhere secluded in nature. Sit, kneel, or lie flat on your back. Call on the God and Goddess in your own words or with written invocations. After that mark spots on your body anywhere symbolizing the God and Goddess. Meditate a few minutes before getting up and leaving.

Wiccans in general

  • Wiccans have a strict belief in a sort of karma called the Law of Three.
  • Wiccans do not look at their path as the only way to achieve spirituality, but as one path among many to the same end.
  • Wiccans believe that anyone who is meant for this path will find it through their own search as the Goddess speaks to each of us in her time and way.

Celtic Wicca

Eclectic Wicca

  • Celtic Wicca focuses mainly on Celtic traditions combined with ancient Celtic beliefs as well as more modern practices.
  • Celtic Wiccans seek to be closely attuned to nature. Therefore, they use herbalism and divination, revere women, seek a connection with the ancestors and land spirits.

Sources

  • It indicates that the individual does not follow any particular tradition, denomination, sect or magickal practice. They learn and study from many magickal systems and apply to themselves what appears to work best.
  • The Feri tradition falls under this sect because it teachers tend to add their own spin to it. Feri's are usually solitary or work in small groups.

Gardnerian Wicca

  • http://wicca.com/celtic/elements/elements.htm
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magick_(Thelema)
  • New Religious Movements edited by Dereck Daschke and W. Michael Ashcraft
  • Wicca a guide for the solitary practitioner by Scott Cuningham
  • http://www.wicca.org/Church/basictenets.html
  • http://carm.org/wicca
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah
  • http://www.witchway.net/wicca/what4.html

Sources(pictures)

  • http://www.glogster.com/shansell16/wicca-/g-6kqqimgjht3q8gaechi5da0
  • http://www.cvltnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/22_23-large2.jpg
  • https://merlinspath.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/druids_stonehenge.jpg
  • http://www.chasclifton.com/graphics/johnandroy.jpg
  • https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/d1/25/cf/d125cfeea7aca9adbff0158c5032a19f.jpg
  • http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eWUVEDSxKyQ/UNeaap1gb7I/AAAAAAAAAKI/zsE856ZqVIU/s1600/triple-goddess-800x1116.jpg
  • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Paganavebury.jpg
  • Started by G. Gardner, in England, in the mid 1950's.
  • It is a structured religion with a hierarchy within each group, known, as a coven, but little to no authority of one coven over another.
  • They worship the Goddess with a male consort. Ceremonies include a series of initiations into higher levels of the craft, various holiday celebrations based upon the "Wheel of the Year" calendar of Feast days.