«This is not the witches' way, though they believe that helpful spirits, human or otherwise, come of their own accord to assist in their rites, and that those present who have developed “the Sight” (i.e. clairvoyance) may see such spirits.» — distingue el rito de las brujas de la evocación forzada: los espíritus vienen por su voluntad y los ve quien tiene *the Sight*.
Wicca
What does this tradition say about experience, knowledge and transformation? We approach these questions with consciousness as our centre, listening to the language of each source.
Gonzalo Olivares Velázquez · Spiritus Mundi
1 · Listen to the sources
How these passages were chosen: from the works assigned to this tradition, in alphabetical order, the first passage of each whose quoted words name consciousness, awareness, soul, spirit or knowledge (in English or Spanish); one per work, up to four. The choice is by vocabulary only: a passage may agree with our reading, disagree with it, or leave the question open.
«Souls are not annihilated, but pass after death from one body to another» — la doctrina de la reencarnación, que atribuye al culto.
«This language of paganism, as a religion of gloom and gore, was preserved into the twentieth century, often with more instinctual and less self-conscious expression than in the nineteenth.» — Hutton fecha la persistencia del lenguaje que pinta al paganismo como religión de tinieblas y sangre, conservado en el siglo XX con expresión más instintiva que en el XIX.
«Among the believers in witchcraft everything which could not be explained by the knowledge at their disposal was laid to the credit of supernatural powers; and as everything incomprehensible is usually supposed to emanate from evil, the witches were believed to be possessed of devilish arts.» — cómo se fabrica, según ella, la atribución diabólica: lo inexplicable se acredita a lo sobrenatural, y lo sobrenatural incomprensible se acredita al mal.
2 · Ask what each source declares
Who knows, and what is transformed? Is the relationship between inner experience and the world declared, disputed, or left open? Let the passage determine the answer before bringing it into dialogue with our reading.
Explore documented argument maps →3 · Return to the centre
For us, these paths meet in consciousness. Which passage converses with that reading, and which qualifies or contradicts it? Save it with your own note.
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