| THE WITCHES CREED |
| THE SECRETS WE HID IN THE NIGHT , WHEN DARK WAS OUR DESTINY'S PATHWAY, THAT NOW WE BRING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT.MYSTIRIOUS WATER AND FIRE, THE EARTH AND WIDE-RANGING AIR. BY HIDDEN QUINTESSENCE WE KNOW THEM, AND WILL KEEP SILENT AND DARE. THE BIRTH AND REBIRTH OF ALL NATURE, THE PASSING OF WINTER AND SPRING, WE SHARE THE LIFE UNIVERSAL, REJOICE IN THE MAGICKAL RING. FOUR TIMES IN THE YEAR THE GREAT SABBAT RETURNS, AND THE WITCHES ARE SEEN. AT LAMMAS AND CANDLEMAS DANCING, ON MAY EVE AND OLD HALLOWE'EN WHEN DAY TIME AND NIGHT TIME ARE EQUAL, WHEN THE SUN IS AT GREATEST AND LEAST, THE FOUR LESSER SABBATS ARE SUMMONED, AND WITCHES GATHER IN FEST. THIRTEEN SILVER MOONS IN A YEAR ARE, THIRTEEN IS THE COVENS ARRAY. THIRTEEN TIMES AT ESBATS MAKE MERRY, FOR AT EACH GOLDEN YEAR AND DAY, THE POWER THAT WAS PASSED DOWN THE AGE, EACH TIME BETWEEN WOMAN AND MAN, EACH CENTRY TO THE OTHER, ERE TIME AND THE AGES BEGAN. WHEN DRAWN IS THE MAGICK CIRCLE, BY SWORD OR ATHAME OF POWER, ITS COMPASS BETWEEN TWO WORLDS LIES, IN LAND OF SHADES FOR THE HOUR. THIS WORLD HAS NO RIGHT THEN TO KNOW IT, AND WORLD OF BEYOND WILL TELL NAUGHT. THE OLDEST OF THE GODS ARE INVOKED THERE , THE GREATEST OF MAGICK IS WROUGHT. FOR THE TWO ARE MYSTICAL PILLARS, THAT STAND AT THE GATES OF THE SHRINE, AND TWO ARE THE POWERS OF NATURE, THE FORMS AND THE FORCES DIVINE. THE DARK AND NIGHT IN SUCCESSION, THE OPPOSITES EACH UNTO EACH. SHOWN FORTH AS A GOD AND GODDESS: OF THIS OUR ANCESTORS TEACH, BY NIGHT HES THE WILD WIND RIDER THE HORNED ONE, THE KING OF THE WOODLAND, THE DWELLER IN GREEN FORESTS GLADES.SHE IS YOUTHFUL OR OLD AS SHE PLEASES, SHE SAILS THE TORN CLOUDS IN HER BARQUE THE BRIGHT SILVER LADY OF MIDNIGHT, THE CRONE WHO WEAVES SPELLS IN THE DARK. THE MASTER AND MISTRESS OF MAGICK, THAT DWELL IN THE DEEPS OF THE MIND, IMMORTAL AND EVER RENEWING, WITH THE POWER TO FREE OR TO BIND. AND DO WHAT YOU WILL BE THE CHALLENGE, SO BE IT LOVE THAT HARMS NONE, FOR THIS IS THE ONLY COMMANDMENT, BY MAGICK OF OLD , BE IT DONE !!!! |
| THIS IS IN MY BOOK OF SHADOWS .....I THOUGHT IT TO BE BEAUTIFUL AND AT THE SAME TIME A GOOD LESSON IN THE CRAFT !!!!! |