The Real Witches’ Handbook: The Definitive Handbook of Advanced Magical Techniques. Kate West

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СКАЧАТЬ with your own personal power it is a good idea to put at least some of the creative effort in yourself, perhaps making a statue or making the frame for a picture. Where the deity has an alternate form, like Arachne’s spider, the image may be of that form. It is not necessary to have an image of each and every Goddess or God you wish to work with, but it can be very helpful to have something around which aids your focus.

      Witches do not always refer to the Goddess and the God by any name at all. Some prefer only to talk about the Goddess and the God, or even to refer to them as the Lady and the Lord. In this case the images they may keep around them may be fairly simple – a round stone with a hole through it to represent the Goddess, a phallically shaped stone to represent the God, for example. Of course, two things which represent the Goddess and the God and which are present at most rituals are the Chalice and the Athame (the Witches’ knife).

      There are many reasons for wishing to have symbols of your deities around you. Perhaps the most important is so that you have a memory key. It is easier, especially at first, if you have a tangible object to focus on, rather than working purely on the mental/psychic plane. It works in much the same way as a mnemonic does, so that when you look at the image it becomes easier to remember all the attributes that you have associated with it.

      However, obtaining an image of the Goddess and/or the God is only a small step in learning to worship and work with them. As I said earlier, you will need a good understanding of their personalities, roles and stories, and for this you will need first to read up on them and secondly to make personal contact. To those who have been brought up within one of the ‘orthodox’ patriarchal religions this may at first sound quite impossible – after all, that is what priests are there for in those religions. However, in the Craft we are each our own Priest or Priestess and need no intermediary to intercede with our Gods for us. We are able to make direct contact and gain personal experience of the divine.

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