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From: Paul Seymour
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To: All Msg #182, 03/03/92 08:26cst
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Subject: Open letter to New Witches
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Message number 827 in "WICCA"
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Date: 03-01-92 1:12
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From: Puck
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To: Camille Lockyer
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Subj: On a slightly different note...
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AN OPEN LETTER TO A WITCH
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I do not know what Tradition you follow. That does not matter. Indeed, for
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all I know, you may not follow any of the traditions. You may be one of
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those many lonely ones who, for whatever reason, must worship by 'feel'
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rather than through any formal coven training or participation. But whoever
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you are, and however you worship, all that matters to me is that you hold
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true to the God and the Goddess.
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My purpose in writing this letter is to enjoin your aid in destroying that
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which cripples our Craft. Dissension is the disease. It is not a cancer,
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for it can be cured; and, as with most herbal cures, the best treatment is
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that administered internally.
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Friend, help spread the Brotherhood and Sisterhood of the Craft. do not
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seek to establish a scale of Wicca purism, (for no two Witches will ever
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agree on the relative positions on the scale of even their own tradition.)
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There is no one religion for all people, and THERE IS NO ONE TRADITION FOR
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ALL WITCHES! Let this be understood, and accepted. Choose your own path and
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leave your neighbor to choose his. Remember the primary tenet: "AN IT HARM
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NONE, DO WHAT THOU WILT."
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Yet never forget: "An it harm none..." If your path leads to sex rites,
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to homosexuality, to phallic-initiation...do not pt it foreward as "THE
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WICCAN WAY". It is only A Wiccan way, one of MANY. And by the same token,
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if a path so presented is not your way, do not decry it simply because it is
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not your way. Who are you to say another is wrong, so long as it harms none.
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Strive for honesty, friend. Do not make false Craft claims, whether of
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position, heredity, lineage, or whatever. If you have a quarrel with
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someone, seek out the one you disagree with, rather than utilize perhaps
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unreliable intermediaries. do not spread unfound rumors and question those
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who do so. News of battle makes more exciting reading than news of peace.
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Why, then, provide battle news for publication when the serenity of the Craft
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is what we should be showing?
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We have come a long way, my friend, in a few short years. Let us move
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on along our chosen paths till we emerge - as we will - accepted and
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respected by ALL as a religion in our own right.
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Help us bring an end to washing our dirty linen in public. There will
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always be disagreements, there will always be those who cannot tolerate
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others, but they are in the minority and so they should remain, if you wish.
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But do not deny them their right to those differences.
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Friend, we are Children of the Universe, and Children of the God and the
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Goddess. Let us try to remember that, and live in Peace.
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Blessed Be, and Merry Part!
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This letter was first given to me by an exceptional HPS, Lady Mariah, in
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L.A., when I was first initiated. She had received it upon her first
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initiation in the Craft from her HPS, Lady Bethea, who received it from hers
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in England. I share this with all of you in hopes that it will spark some
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good discussion, and, above all, help us to THINK!!!!!
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Blessed Be!
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Puck
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* Origin: The Mountain Oracle, P.O.D.S. for CO. Springs (1:128/101)
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