(05-15-2024, 10:18 AM)Ninurta Wrote:(05-14-2024, 02:49 PM)GeauxHomeLittleD Wrote: What constitutes witchcraft is a matter of perspective. My mother was a practicing witch for years as was I but neither are now. I never made a "pact with Satan", only Satanists do that. The Bible is very wishy washy on the subject. It tells you "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" and yet sings the praises of Solomon and he was a bigger witch than Aleister Crowley!
As long as you're not trying to harm anyone (follow the Law of Three) I have no problem with witches. They are just people with different beliefs. I'd hang out with a witch before I would hang out with "snake handlers". I wouldn't lump all witches together anymore than I'd lump Pentecostals with Moonies. Intent is what matters.
Don't forget Saul - he went and consulted with some witch, too. I reckon Saul eventually got smote - although it doesn't specify whether it was for consorting with witches or not - but no word on whether the witch eventually got smote, too.
Is that "Law of Three" where, if you fling an evil hex on someone, it'll come back on you threefold? I think some covens say tenfold, but I might be missing what the Law of Three means. "Three" meant a lot to folks in old timey witchcraft. You had the "threefold goddess", usually exemplified by the Morrigan - "maiden, matron, and crone", and then you also had the Welsh Triad laws, where every law was stated 3 different ways. My guess is that reverence for "threes" made it a lot easier for Island Celts to accept the notion of a "trinity" when Christianity came calling on them.
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In this case I'm referring to the belief that whatever you do- good or bad- returns to you threefold. I do agree that when it comes to the "bad" it seems to multiply to more like tenfold, "bad" meaning something harmful or even just something without the explicit permission of the "target" though I only participated in something that was done without explicit permission once and even though done with good intent backfired with hell to pay.
I have often wondered if the Christian concept of the Trinity is based on the belief in the Triple Goddess. So much of the different Pagan beliefs are incorporated into Christianity that it is difficult sometimes to tell which came first- the chicken or the egg? I suspect that just like many other Christian rituals and holidays the Trinity is also based on much, much older beliefs. I know that in order to convert Pagans to Christianity (at least "officially") there was a LOT of blending involved, so much that we may never know what form the original Christian religion looked like.
I wonder how many Catholics realize that taking communion is a magick ritual? Lol!
As an American it's your responsibility to have your own strategic duck stockpile. You can't expect the government to do it for you.