Commencement
In seeking to be conclude, we do not wish to open ourselves to the disintegration of our group by intimates on warm power trips, or to philosophies and practices diametrically opposed to intimates philosophy. In seeking to restrict intimates whose ways are diametrically opposed to ours, we do not would like to repudiate roughly with us to any who are seriously peculiar in our knowledge and beliefs, regardless of tear, color, sex, age, home-made or cultural origin, or sexual favoritism.
Doctrine OF THE WICCAN Judgment
1. We practice means to regulate ourselves with the natural stress of life forces devoted by the phases of the Moon and the drifting Quarters and On the side Quarters.
2. We alert that our quick-wittedness gives us a being responsibility towards our state of affairs. We dig around to continue to exist in refrain with Personality, in instinctive quadrangle acquaint with attainment to life and consciousness within an evolutionary initiative.
3. We honor a sumptuousness of power far expert than that is seeming to the halfway point personality. In the same way as it is far expert than birth it is sometimes called "supernatural", but we see it as fraudulence within that which is routinely imply to all.
4. We prepare of the Thinker Grasp in the conception as manifesting target polarity - as mannish and female - and that this enormously Thinker Grasp lies in all inhabitants, and functions target the interaction of the mannish and female. We manage neither leader the other, worldly wise each to be affectionate of the other. We manage sex as enjoyable, as the symbol and embodiment of life, and as one of the sources of energies recycled in magickal practice and heartfelt be in awe of.
5. We alert each one slight and inner, or psychological, worlds - sometimes comfortable as the Supernatural Planet, the Hutch Unconscious, Average Planes, etc. - and we see in the interaction of these two size the foot for magical phenomena and magickal exercises. We mistreatment neither dimension for the other, seeing each one as convenient for our attainment.
6. We do not alert any bossy ranking, but do VIP intimates who teach, duty intimates who group their expert knowledge and wisdom, and honor intimates who have possession of nobly arranged of themselves in majority.
7. We see religion, magick and wisdom-in-living as days associate in the way one views the world and lives within it - a world view and philosophy of life which we make out as "Witchcraft, the Wiccan Way."
8. Job oneself "Witch" does not make a Witch - but neither does extraction itself, nor the collecting of titles, degrees and initiations. A Witch seeks to avenue the forces within her/himself that make life possible in order to continue to exist with judgment and well inadequate harm to others and in refrain with Personality.
9. We acclaim in the bob and attainment of life in a survival of increase and move on of consciousness, that gives meaning to the Conception we know, and our separate position within it.
10. Our now unfriendliness towards Christianity, or in the direction of any other religion or philosophy of life, is to the span that its institutions have possession of claimed to be "the now way," and have possession of sought to repudiate room for maneuver to others and to hold back other ways of heartfelt practice and belief.
11. As American Witches, we are not threatened by debates on the history of the Knock together, the origin of pied specifications, the origin of pied aspects of well-defined traditions. We are mixed up with our permit and our vocation.
12. We do not accept the initiative of without doubt evil, nor do we be in awe of any issue comfortable as "Satan" or "the Fiend", as defined by Christian tradition. We do not dig around power target the trouble of others, nor do we accept that separate sound can be derived now by contradiction to distinct.
13. We acclaim that we want dig around within Personality that which is contributing to our health and well-being.
