Section 1 LORE The God~ We have looked at several pantheons and we have discussed the Goddess, but She is not just Jehovah with a different pronoun LOL. She has a partner, the God. Creation for witches is not a divine 6th grade science project, hastily thrown together, and then mostly ignored. No, creation is the natural outflow of the Divine Consumation of the eternal love affair between the God and the Goddess. He is both Her son and Her husband, His seed causes the Mother to quicken and become pregnant. Without Him, the Mother would be barren. As with the Goddess, the God is an infinitely complex being. As She is Divine Female He is Divine Male. In His names we begin to understand the full range of masculinity, from warrior and hunter to father and son, from lover to healer to sage, from king to wild beast to holy sacrifice for the good of his children in the form of the crops and animals that we consume. As with the Goddess, the God has a dark and a light side, seemingly opposing but in actuality only a complete circle. The God dies and is reborn endlessly in the cycles of nature. He is not masculine as we have come to expect in Western culture, emotionless, controlled, authoritarian, but something deeper and more powerful. He is emotional, yet strong, compassionate and tender, without being weak. He is wild and untamed but not destructive. The God unifies opposites, He is free. He is all that refuses to be domesticated, diluted, molded or made safe. He is sexual and spiritual at the same time, untrammeled by inhibitions and fears. Like the Goddess ,the God is both within in and without us. As we call His names, as we sing, and dance, and shout, and drum, He awakens within us and quickens the Goddess within ourselves. Consider now the Charge of the God: "Listen to the words of the Great Father, who of old was called Osiris, Adonis, Zeus, Thor, Pan, Cernunnos, Herne, Lugh and by many other names: "My Law is Harmony with all things. Mine is the secret that opens the gates of life and mine is the dish of salt of the earth that is the body of Cernunnos that is the eternal circle of rebirth. I give the knowledge of life everlasting, and beyond death I give the promise of regeneration and renewal. I am the sacrifice, the father of all things, and my protection blankets the earth." Hear the words of the dancing God, the music of whose laughter stirs the winds, whose voice calls the seasons: "I who am the Lord of the Hunt and the Power of the Light, sun among the clouds and the secret of the flame, I call upon your bodies to arise and come unto me. For I am the flesh of the earth and all it's beings. Thru me all things must die and with me are reborn. Let my worship be in the body that sings, for behold all acts of willing sacrifice are my rituals. Let there be desire and fear, anger and weakness, joy and peace, awe and longing within you. For these too are part of the mysteries found within yourself, within me, all beginnings have endings, and all endings have beginnings." Next Lecture: Lore section 2~ Sabbats

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