Wicca according to Viveinne Crowley.

The following is an adaptation of a piece written by Vivienne Crowley.
I adapted it only to make it shorter, the words are hers, and they are re-created only in order to pass on her ideas of Wicca, and for no other reason.
She speaks of Wicca with such ease of belief and total faith in the existence of magic with these words, that I wanted to share them.

QUOTE

If you go down to the woods today you may have a big surprise. In deep forests and clearings you may find covens of witches worshiping the ancient pagan deities, practising Wicca, the ancient art, craft and religion of witchcraft.
The word Wicca is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word wicce, (a Witch) and is a synthesis of different belief systems that have endured into the modern age because they are relevant to our needs today.
It is a pre-Christian religion originating in the mists of time, and is based on remnants of simple pagan traditions handed down in folklore and country custom. Onto those have been grafted more sophisticated beliefs from the more formal Paganisms of Rome, Greece and Egypt, and from the initiatory mystery traditions. Wicca involves the development of magical psychic powers, but hand in hand with the wisdom to use them.
Who are they, these people who call themselves Witches? Who walk the ancient ways, who work the traditional magics and speak once more to the long-silent Goddesses and Gods?
They are men and women of of all nations and races. They are young and old, rich and poor. Those that have awoken to the fact that material creation is not the be all and end all; that science does not have all the answers, nor do the so-called world religions. They have remembered something that many of us have forgotten. Partly it is ancient wisdom, partly it is common sense.
People come to Wicca for many reasons. Some seek occult power and knowledge, some are drawn to Wicca by feminism and the role of the Goddess; others by ecological awareness and reverence for nature; still others seek spiritual transformation.
Gerald Gardner, one of the founding fathers of modern Wicca once wrote:

QUOTE (Gerald Gardner)

" Witchcraft was, and is, not a cult for everybody. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of this world into the world of Faery, it is of no use to you."

Some of us come to Wicca because we may have had a sense of inner power that had no name, a sense that just beyond the realm of sight and sound and touch there dwelt another kingdom - The Land of Faery. Some of us were aware that some of this power from the Land of Faery dwelt within us. Perhaps we went there in our dreams.

I thought this piece of writing might be helpful and informative to those just beginning the path, it contains basic information about the origins of Wicca, and without delving too deeply into the specifics it gives you plenty of things to google in order to get more details if you want them.

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