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#WITCHES IN COMMON CAUSE WITH NAture

"COMMON CAUSE" WITH NATURE

My Mother is very Old World, having been raised in a small village near

Naples. When I was a child she used to tell me that our People have always

performed the Rites which cause the Sun and the Moon to return as they do,

and the Seasons to return each year. She used to say that if we were to stop,

then the World would die. But, she would add, there will always be at least

one person, who will maintain the Ways which give Life to our World. I do not

know if she believed this literally, but as an adult now, I truly understand

what she was saying, on a metaphysical level.

It is the purpose of our yearly rites, to give energy back into the

World. Just as soil is depleted by crop growing, and the fields must be

rotated, so too is the etheric substance depleted, which empowers the

mechanism of "Lifegiving" on this Planet of ours. For example, at the Summer

Solstice, it is part of our ritual to raise an energy field, and to

"impregnate" it with a "formed thought". Once this "cone of power" is formed,

then it is released and directed into the "Bound Ether" of our Community. The

cone can be charged to disperse pollution in the air, or to rid the

"Community Atmosphere" of negativity (crimes, gangs, rapes, etc.) or to

replace lost fertility within the soil, and so on. In this way, we join in

the dance of Nature, and make Common Cause with Her efforts to maintain

lifegiving energies. Each of the eight rites of the year, serve a similar

purpose, and contribute to that which is appropriate at any giving Season

of the year. The Full Moon rituals, are likewise times of renewal.

There is an occult property to Moonlight itself, and if properly drawn,

condensed, impregnated, and directed, it too can be used to give Life back

into the World. Another purpose for the Rite of the Full Moon is to empower

us, as witches. Moonlight can be used to increase psychic ability, and to

recharge the power centers of an individual. It is from Moonlight, that we as

witches, draw our power. Science is beginning to catch up a bit now, with the

ancient knowledge of Witches, and is taking a look at the effects of the Moon

upon us, and upon our World. Soon, I think, Science will begin to see that

the Occult Teachings of the Craft, are a Metaphysical Science as valid as

Physical Science.

The "bound ether" of our Planet is what Eastern Mystics call "Akasha"

(wherein you have the Akashic Records). There is also the microcosm of the

bound ether of a Community, such as a City or Village. It is the energy

"atmosphere" which is formed by the Collective Consciousness, of the people

who live there. All places possess this bound Ether, even Bars and

Nightclubs, etc. You can "feel" it when you enter in. It effects the people

who come into contact with it, and over long periods of time, can change the

way they look at things. It is the bound ether of a place which holds the

images, which psychics can perceive about that place.

It is part of the work we do, as Witches, to cleanse this Ether of

negative thought-forms. Witches have always been the local healers, not only

of the people there, but also of the places themselves.

Ritual Magic can change the "vibration" of the bound ether, and thus change

it's "feel", and thus it's effect.

RAVEN, Italian Witchcraft.

BLESSED BE.