THE BEGINNING OF THE END…

In the year 1233, Pope Gregory IX instituted the Roman Catholic Inquisition in an attempt to gain popularity for Catholicism and his church. In 1320, Pope John XXII requested that the church officially declare Witchcraft ,and the Old Religion of the Pagans, as a “heretical movement” and a “hostile threat” to Christianity.

The single most influential piece of propaganda that fueled their campaign was commissioned by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484 . He instructed the Dominican monks, Heinrich Kraemer and Jacob Sprenger, to publish a manual for Witch-hunters. Two years later the Malleus malificarum, or “The Witches’ Hammer” was produced. The manual was used for the next 250 years in the church’s attempt to destroy the Old Religion.

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“Rise up, Witches, throw off your masks
And cease crying guilt for ancient crimes;
Earth and all her children need us,
For ALL face now the Burning Times.”
- L. A. Hussey

Once Long Ago, We Knew The Great Mother, Remember Her Now, She Has Returned….. Shadows dancing within my mind,
These shadows take me back in time;

Past life regression I soon see,
This young woman that once was me;

Men came in, swept me away in the night,
Chilled to the bone and so full of fright;

The horses hoofs beat hard and fast,
I could not break free, this was my past;

My hands and feet bound so tight,
I succumed to them for I could no longer fight;

People looked upon me with much hate,
What had I done to seal my fate;

Wood stacked high awaiting the fire,
Murder in their eyes, that was their desire;

Burn her now and send her to hell,
Look not upon her for she might cast a spell;

Overcome with pain and sorrow, I begin to scream and cry,

That last words that I hear, DIE WITCH DIE

Starrfire

Hear ye the words of the Star Goddess;
she in the dust of whose feet are the hosts
of heaven, and whose body encircles the universe

I who am the beauty of the green earth,
the white moon among the stars, and the mystery
of the waters call unto thy soul;
Arise, and come unto me.

I am the soul of nature who gives life to the universe.
From Me all things proceed, and unto Me all things must return.
Before My face, beloved of gods and of men, let thine
innermost divine self be enfolded in the rapture of the infinite.

Let My worship be within the heart that rejoices,
for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.
Therefore let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion,
honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

To thou who thinkest to seek Me, know that thy seeking and
yearning shall avail thee not unless thou knowest the Mystery.
If that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee,
thou wilt never find it without.

For behold, I have been with thee from the beginning; and
I am that which is attained at the end of desire.”

- from Doreen Valiente’s “Charge of the Goddess”