"Who's that?" he said.
"He was a Christian magician and adviser to Queen Elizabeth. Called on angels to help England defeat the Spanish Armada."
"Christian magician? He wasn't a Christian then."
"Yes he was. He was a Christian and a magician." ...Argument heated up from there.
Can you be a Christian and practice magick? Some put it like: you ought not suffer a witch to live. Some Christians say magick is what Jesus had in mind for his followers. Christian-witch hybrids are working their wicce right now. Some say our search engines are acting oracles, that the Internet has made us all players in a kind of cyber-tarot, whether orthodox, heterodox, agnostic, or acrostic.
Me, I don't reckon working with magick is a very good idea. Magick is messy, chaotic, and it tends to give people big-heads. For me, the "natural magic" of sitting and Being is enough. The magic is already in the world, working through us -- best to learn about its processes by sincere observation rather than dissection and control. And Christianity isn't really about controlling reality.
But that doesn't mean sincere Christians can't sincerely practice magick.
What do you think?
2 comments:
My latest blog post addresses topic of "christian witches" I just don't think it's possible to be a practicing witch and a christian at the same time at all, witchcraft is a sin....1 Samuel 15:23 "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,......" I think this is some attempt by witches to be accepted in the christian masses this "christian witch" idea and it shouldn't work out for them, but they shouldn't be burned at the stake. I won't touch on my thoughts on the gay issue w/christianity in america leave that for another day I like gays though : ) Have 1 witch friends she's pry going to hell though!
Witchcraft is much older than Christianity, and it was (still is?) an earnest way of expressing love for the Creator (which I take they saw as a union between masculine and feminine nature forces). That's exactly what Jesus implored us to do -- love the Creator, and love each other. I don't think there's much of a problem with Christians also practicing the Old Religion.
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