Wicca is not just a cult, not a sect, it is to all intents and purposes a religion.
To understand how, in her religion, Wicca has some deep features that distinguish it from other religions, we must start from the very meaning of the term, ie the meaning that we as Wiccans, we attach to religion. It 's the same etymology (Pianigiani etymological vocabulary) to give us what for us is the meaning of their religion: it derives from RELIGIOUS from RE - which mentions FREQUENCY and LEGERE , ie CHOOSE and figuratively search for, watch carefully, from which the word signifies the HAVE ABOUT / CARE . The Wicca religion is the fact of having care, respect for nature, for men and gods. CARE is a component of the attitude of our religious tradition and the religion for us is especially AWARENESS OF THE 'TAKE CARE' . It is the responsibility that we assume to ourselves (when we take care of us), before things (when we take care of the world), before the gods (when we honor them and recognize them) and basically has to do with an original that is existential, involving all our "BEING IN THE WORLD" , we have men and women. We are, in fact, "for the world", and this implies that we must take care of what constitutes the world, nature, civilization, others.
The religious attitude implies a relationship AUTHENTIC with care: caring about something does not mean only "interested" in something, can not be reduced to mere instrumentality, how the world we need, but must be understood in how to look: A GENUINE CARE INJURY goes beyond, for example, from cultural prejudice where we are originally "buried" as the religious traditions in which we grow. Our existence is somehow inauthentic because we adhere to a way of thinking that is already pre-established: we are born with this lack of authenticity, that is, with a series of concepts that we have simply accepted. The authenticity is therefore free from this prejudice. free ourselves from the "common sense" to comprehend the world directly, not as an object, but rather as something that is experienced. The treatment is therefore a genuine "engage" the world without prejudice, but rather common sense, that is, starting from his own experience of things. This is why we often say that in Wicca, there is nothing to believe. Believe is already an injury! In contrast, the call us to experience them, that is to truly cure us of them. This
our attitude is one way of looking at things, a look that is able to recognize the sacred as the "place" in which the divine manifests itself. The return of the gods through the rebuilding of the shrine as a place where God shows his face particular. A sacred space is opened and through which the divine, that is what may occur in the sacred, it shows man.
When we enter into the dimension of authentic care, which is our religious dimension, is how to move from a vision in white black to color and sacred place is like a splash of color in a world in black and white. Practicing Wicca is dedicated to those the world or better, to ensure that the colors reappear. It 's a life "artist" that takes place in a "space between worlds": the limited human and the divine the mysterious and indescribable.
From "Wicca, the new era of the Old Religion," Cronos, published by Editions Aradia
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