MY WICCA   (Part 3 of 5)
                          By Durwydd MacTara


  b) These powers can be awakened through the various
  techniques of the Mysteries, and, although they are only
  capable of small effects in and of themselves, it is
  possible to use them in order to draw upon the forces of
  the universe.  Thus humanity can be the wielders of the
  power of the Gods, a channel for Godhead to act within
  It's own manifestation.  This, many feel, is further reason
  for the oath of secrecy.

  c) Since the universe is the body of the One, possessing
  many of the same attributes as the One, it's Laws must be the
  principles through and by which the One operates.  By
  reasoning from the known to the unknown, one can learn
  of the Divine, and thus of oneself.  By experiencing the Mysteries
  a person can truly LEARN more about the One. Thus the Craft is a
  natural religion as well as a MYSTERY religion, seeing in Nature
  the expression and revelation of Divinity.

5. We know that everything in the universe is in movement or vibration
and is a function of that vibration. Everything vibrates; all things
rise and fall in a tidal system that reflects the motion inherent in the
universe and also in the atom.  Matter and energy are but two poles of
one continuous phenomenon. Therefore the Witch celebrates, harmonizes
with, and makes use of the tides of the universe and of life as
expressed through the cycle of the seasons and the motion of the solar
system.  These ritual observances are the eight great Festivals of the
Year, referred to as the Wheel of the Year.  Further, the Witch works
with the forces and tides of the Moon, for this body is the mediator of
much energy to our planet Earth and thus to ourselves.

6.   Nothing is dead matter in the universe.  All things exist,
therefore all things live, though perhaps in a different manner from
that which we are used to calling life.  In view of this, the Witch
knows that there is no true death, only change from one condition to
another. The universe is the body of Godhead, and therefore
possesses one transcendent consciousness; all things partake of the
consciousness, in varying levels of trance/awareness.

  a) Because of this principle, all things are sacred to
  the Witch, for all partake of the one Life.

  b) Therefore the Witch is a natural ecologist, for Nature
  is part of us as we are a part of Nature.

7.   Throughout the development of the human race, civilizations have
seen and worshipped many and various attributes of the Divine.  These
universal forces have been clothed in forms which were expressive to the
worshipper of the attribute of the Godhead which they expressed. Use of
these symbolic representations of the natural and divine forces of the
universe, or god forms, is a  potent method for contacting and utilizing
the forces they represent. Thus the Gods are both natural and truly
divine, and man-made in that the forms with which they are clothed are
products of humanity's striving to know the Godhead.

  a) In keeping with the Law of Polarity, these god-forms
  are brought into harmony by the one great Law which
  states:  All Gods are one God.  All Goddesses are one
  Goddess.  There is one Initiator.  This law is an
  expression of our understanding that all of the forces of
  the universe, by whatever ethnic god-form is chosen to
  clothe and relate to whichever force, can be resolved
  into the fundamental polarity of the Godhead, the Great
  Mother and the All-Father.