Basic Beliefs of Witches
D. Valeinte

One of the witches most important beliefs obviously is the reality and possibility of magic. This involves the idea that the physical world is only part of reality, the part that we are able to comprehend with our five senses. Beyond are vaster realms and in these the witch seeks to venture. This again involves a further belief, namely that human beings have more than the usual reckoning of five. By means of these innate psychic powers and capabilities, the realms beyond are contacted. These powers are perfectly natural but latent and inactive in the majority of people. They are powers that have become overlaid and hidden by the artificialities of civilisation, but can be reawakened.

Witches reject the masculine patriarchal concept of god, in favour of old ideas. It seems more reasonable to them, to conceive Divinity as being both masculine and feminine and as evolving moreover a hierarchy of Great Beings, personified as God and Goddess, who rule over different departments of nature and assist in the evolution of the Cosmos.

If the witches concept of Gods were precisely defined, it could perhaps best be called life itself, the life force or spiral of the Universe. This it seems to witches must be basically benign, however apparently destructive and terrible some of its manifestations may be, because if this weren't so, then life would be divided against itself, which is absurd. Moreover, it must be supreme wisdom, because of the wonder and beauty manifested in its myriad forms and Its tendency to evolve forms capable of expressing ever higher degrees of intelligence. So we who are its children should seek to live in harmony with nature, which is Its visible expression of Cosmic life, and in doing so find true happiness and wisdom.

Witches do not believe that true morality consists of observing a list of "Thou shalt nots."

Their morality can be summed up in one sentence, " Do what you will but harm none" This does not mean that witches are pacifists. They say that to allow wrong to flourish unchecked is not harming none. On the contrary it is harming everybody.

They believe the idea of reincarnation seems reasonable and right because nothing in the Universe can be destroyed, it only changes its manifestation. When the body wears out or is damaged beyond repair the person is said to be dead, but it is the body which is dead, you can not bury or cremate people, only bodies, the soul moves on and is not destroyed only freed from the confines of matter. Between Earthly incarnations the soul moves into another dimension co-existing with this world we see with mortal sight. Here it judges itself against its soul print that it itself drew up for its last life-time. It then rests before drawing up the next soul print for its incarnation into matter, where it can once more experience the trials and joys of the flesh.