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5. A male Witch is not a "Warlock". This is a Scottish term, meaning "traitor", or "oathbreaker". (A male
Witch is a "Witch").
6. Witchcraft is a legal religion protected under the First and Fourteenth amendments. We are
non-proselytizing; we don't seek to convert anyone . We feel that all religions are equally valid, and that
you should be free to choose the one with which you are most comfortable. No religion has the monopoly
of God (despite what some may claim). As long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of others, we all have
a right to our own method of worshipping the Deity.
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General information: What is the I ching (yee jing)
Posted by: Mysteron on Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 01:59 PM
It may be the oldest book in the world. Originating thousands of years ago among the
courtly shaman-diviners of ancient China, it springs out of the unadulterated consciousness
of primeval humanity. Here are truly fundamental perceptions of reality, distilled into
inter-related images of physical and spiritual reality. The images are associated with
numbers, and the numbers may be derived from certain technical manipulations that enable
a skilled reader to use the book as an oracle. In fact, the book has been used and abused for
fortune telling from its earliest days. It had itself evolved out of a still more ancient divining tool known
as the Tortoise Oracle, whose wisdom it incorporated.
In Chinese, "ching" means book. "I" means change, or changes. Thus the name may be translated as The
Book of Changes. But "I" means not only change. Strangely enough, it also means permanence, or the
unchangeable. The Book of Changes views all of the changes that we and the world go through as an
unfolding of the immutable laws and principles of existence. By explaining our present situation in terms
of the natural laws that have given rise to it, we can know where we are headed and what the future is
likely to be.
The I ching views the universe as a natural and well-coordinated system in which the process of change
never ceases. It presents human nature and destiny as based on principle and order. Study of the I ching
thus makes it possible for us to orient individual human activities and situations within the larger context
of harmonious interactions between people, nature, and the cosmos.
The I ching is a practical guide through the perplexities and insecurities of daily life. It roots our actions,
experiences and expressions in the fundamental ground of existence. It's beautiful commentaries help to
give us the moral strength we need to fulfill our ideals. The loveliness of its images provide endless joys
of meditation, study and contemplation.
The heart of the book is in its images. There are sixty-four in all, and the reader must be familiar with the
particular meaning of each one, as well as the ways in which one image may change into another image
in the course of time. Age-old traditions describing the images through the medium of imaginative verse
help the intuitive and psychic personality to disclose the underlying themes. And, in addition, a great
number of philosophers have written commentaries about the images in the I ching. The legendary
contributions of Confucius, or Kung-fu-tse, from about 500bc are the most celebrated, but there have
been many others of comparable scope and quality. The images have been interpreted from the point of
view of many of the world's religions, including Christianity, and they have been related to secular
concerns in translations like the one that has guided the affairs of present-day Japan's pre-eminent
corporate leader, Matsushita.
Indeed, the I ching may be consulted on virtually any subject or concern. All things in Heaven and Earth
are dreamt of in this philosophy, Horatio.
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