tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5632073289123188675.post5495818313092231164..comments2021-12-02T17:27:03.278-08:00Comments on Greg's Occultism: Lies and LineageFrater SGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00197821346540770038noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5632073289123188675.post-73786680458565932132021-12-02T17:27:03.278-08:002021-12-02T17:27:03.278-08:00This is an important thing you bring up re lies, b...This is an important thing you bring up re lies, but the other stuff is due to comparing apples to oranges. Wicca and Neo-paganism are earth religions that accept magick, not occult orders. It's about the religion, or they would just be practioners of witchcraft.<br /><br />My experience today is most neo-pagan and Wiccan groups do not go Skylar and it's a choice and many do it to feel free or because of previous taboos, and visible individuality is encouraged. Again it's more *ecstatic* than hermetic. <br /><br /> The ones I've encountered do notpretend any such thing, consider themselves new religions based on the earth as home/biome,or based on Gardners invention, which they've adapted.<br />Re magick they use a somewhat simplified version of the system of the same as most Western occult/crowley/etc (syncretism of eastern philosophy, hermetic principles and mythology, correspondences) they are just more interested in a more Orphic path than ceremonial magick occult types, thei focus is much more ecstatic/sensory or celebratory/expresssive in public rituals, for many there's less of a rationalistic bent by intention,, wanting to experience wildness,joy, pain,feeling *alive* and free the way an animal feels free....<br /> It's more shamanic/animism-leaning than hermetic traditions are.<br />Also, they are firstly a *religion* (that accepts animism and magick as real and many practice practical magick often related to crafts or what people call hedge magick) so yes the gods are as real to them as Jesus is to a Christian.<br />Rhesus Peaceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09837063598522893769noreply@blogger.com