The
God
By Chris
Wood
Pagan Witches work with many Gods and Goddesses, but one God and
one Goddess in particular feature in our invocations. To some of
us, all the other Gods are aspects of Him, and all the other
Goddesses are aspects of Her. I will talk about the Witches'
God.
His is the power of the stag and the stillness of the heron; the
wisdom of the serpent and the bounty of the oak; the fear of the
hunted and the tension in the hunter's bow. He is Robin Hood of the
summer-green glades, and the Horned One of winter woods, leading
the Wild Hunt across the sky. He is the spirit of the grain,
self-sacrificed at Lammastide, and the Green Man, laughing in the
leaves. His is the throb of the express train, and the gentleness
of the dewy dawn. In Him are the grace of the fox and the strength
of the plough-horse.
The God is the Divine Masculine, son and lover to the Divine
Feminine, seen in the Goddess. He is also the model of human
spiritual striving, of transcendence, of walking between the
worlds. That is why He is often seen as twins: one of the
Underworld, one of the Upperworld.
The powers of Light and Dark, of generation and of rest and decay,
are more distinct in the Masculine side of divinity. Light and Dark
Goddesses are much more closely linked than are Light and Dark
Gods. So, the God is the complementary pole to the Goddess, but He
is also the very embodiment of creative polarity in His very
nature.
He is the Lord of the Sun and of the regenerative Dark of the
Earth; the Creator and Destroyer; First and Last; Father and Son,
co-existent, sharing Creation with the Goddess. He is trickster and
law-giver, creator and created: the Divine Artificer.
He is the Summer King and the Winter King: the Oak and the Holly
brought together by the Goddess, just as the Morning Star and the
Evening Star are united in the Lady Venus. It is the monotheist
religions that have separated Him out into unstable figures of
absolute good and absolute evil. As the poet Robert Graves
wrote:
"The War between Good and Evil has been waged in so indecent and
painful a way during the past two millennia because the
theologians, not being poets, have forbidden the Goddess to umpire
it, and made God impose on the Devil impossible terms of
unconditional surrender." (The White Goddess, p.446)
We have no Satan, we do not give evil power by making it into a
god. We honour the Light Bearer and the Night Bringer, knowing we
need them both in their season.
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Merry Meet John Ching,
Thanks for your interest! With regards to your question, the above
excerpt probably can answer it all! To be a vegetarian or not is
really very individual, absolutely nothing to do with God of any
form unless you want to... Carrying the "Star Of David" doesn't
make you a Jewish in any ways & without doubts "Star Of David"
is a well known Symbol in term of Pagan or Esoterics field however
it will never overshadow the undeniable Importance of the
"Pentacle" in such Fields. "Pentacle" is one of the most important
& powerful symbol since Ancient Times. Hope all these answer
your queries.
Blessed Be,
Oceanos
