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Different paths suit different people. Some people need to work in different ways at different times. Some love working different ways at the same time! Many of our one day sessions can also be done on their own. |
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IN THIS CYLCH: CIRCLEWORK (homepage) A DIY practical ritual guide, FREE download) * THE BOWL: the art of personal purification or focusing * THE CRAFT overview, FREE download page 2 WEB OF LIFE * page 3 EARTH * page 4 |
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IN "THE CRAFT": page 1 Introduction, FREE download. * page 2 WEB OF LIFE * page 3 EARTH * page 4 CUSTOMS * page 5 SHARING * page 6 ANCESTORS * page 7 CHILDREN * page 8 LEADERS * page 9 CIRCLE * page 10 DIVINITY. |
THE CRAFT
by Shan Morgain, priestess of the Craft.
page 5
The Craft is best shared mouth to ear.The Craft is traditionally passed person to person through family. That is the oldest way.
Families grow through sex so the Craft also passes well between lovers.
The Craft can also pass through friendship, or adoption, if one who has it recognises it beginning to grow in another.
In modern times families are flung about in search of work or homes they can afford. So links with local Land or family are weakened which is both a freedom and a chain.
What has happened to replace some of the loss of the old Craft continuity, is that some independently discover the Craft for themselves.
It seems to grow in some of us by instinct, as a natural response to life, the world, and everything around us.
This is not strange, for how else did the Craft begin in order to be passed along to others?
Nowadays with books and the internet so much part of our lives, independent discovery can come through these tools. These are ways for Craft voices to reach our ears from faraway.
It is not enough simply to read though.
For reading to bring the Craft to us, the reading must touch us deeply, move us, open us.
To become Craft is to realise with total wonder that – this is our home. That we have been building this nameless thing for ourselves anyway. The words we read just show us that yes, this is how it is.
A Craft teacher must never take money for helping someone initiate as Craft.
Sharing the Craft is a task of love done with only a very few people in a lifetime.
Craft people have a duty to serve the Craft by helping at least one other come into the Craft.
But this must never involve recruitment, preaching, or pressure. The duty may be as simple as providing information or contact with a Craft teacher.
No Craft person has the power to exclude or deny another from the Craft, though any Craft person can choose not to associate with another.
A Craft teacher never offers to teach, nor invites or asks anyone to learn from them. They must do the opposite to test for serious intent.
Craft teaching grows in a personal relationship, which is led by the one who learns.
Anyone who becomes Craft must be independent, never submitting to anyone else’s authority over them, except to survive.
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IN "THE CRAFT": page 1 Introduction, FREE download. * page 2 WEB OF LIFE * page 3 EARTH * page 4 CUSTOMS * page 5 SHARING * page 6 ANCESTORS * page 7 CHILDREN * page 8 LEADERS * page 9 CIRCLE * page 10 DIVINITY. |
