The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside us, the collective unconscious, the many lives, the divine eternal parts, the senses and parts of the brain that have been ignored.
The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.
Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and love.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.
I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.
A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.
She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.
I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.
The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to flower permit us to be more fully human.
The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers.
'All the gods are one god and all the goddesses are one goddess, and there is one initiator.' The one initiator is one's own high self, with which the personality becomes more and more integrated as the path of spiritual evolution is followed.
Religion is about creation, and for that reason religion should be about the earth.
The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship
Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
The ancients could communicate with the gods in two ways. First, it was (and is) possible to go into a trance and visit the gods in their celestial retreats, as the great shamans have always done. More easily, and less dangerously, they could let the gods speak through code, that is, divination, using dice, entrails, bird patterns, yarrow sticks, cards.
A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.
Fame is nothing but an empty name.
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