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This is a discrete unit from my ongoing <\/span>Books of the Sacred Marriage<\/i><\/span>. Should I post it at all? The universal plague we face cannot be combatted by politeness. As I have said, Witchcraft is, and must inherently be, an In Your Face religion. I know, of course, there will be many who, out of ignorance, will insist on misunderstanding and misinterpreting this fictive epistle. I don\u2019t care. The minority to whom it is addressed will understand it. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 2. The Second Epistle of Diana<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I, Diana X, to the High Priestesses of Our Lady and our Queen, Aradia, greetings:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Having heard that even within our family there have been controversies over what a High Priestess can or cannot do, should or should not do, I feel impelled to offer the insights I have had by the grace and power of our Goddess.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Here is the crucial fact: You have either Awakened, or you have not. If you have, then you are equal to any other who has Awakened, you <\/span>have become a High Priestess of our family, and you have taken on many privileges, but even more responsibilities, especially to seek out and nurture those who need the Craft, for if our Craft be hid, it is hid from those who are lost.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n You must observe carefully, not only those within our circle, but also those around us, for our primary service to the Goddess is to awaken all who can be Awakened. The ones who have been touched by the Spirit, whose talents have begun to waken, are among the most likely candidates. Even in these modern times, you must carry out your service to the Goddess with caution when reaching out to anyone outside our family and faithful followers. There are still servants of evil who intend to hunt us down. Begin slowly, with tea leaves, the cards, horoscopes, to assess their talents, and use your discernment to assess their character and virtues. Offer the first initiation to the ones you find suitable. Always initiate those who know they are seeking the light of the Gods.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n If one who has found her way to us, hoping to understand what has happened to her, is ripe for the Awakening, you may attempt to precipitate it by various means, but especially by means of the true initiation. <\/span>Always remember that you cannot promise the Awakening to anyone; it is conferred directly by the Gods, who may use you as their vehicle or may suddenly confer the state directly, without warning. Hence the young <\/span><\/span>Witch may Awaken at her first initiation, or later in her training or practice of the Craft, or (if the Gods so choose) perhaps never. She can only wait upon it; but she will know it when it comes. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n One who has begun breaking free of the lies and ignorance that imprison us, who has begun to learn her own power, but has not yet fully Awakened, is the one we call a Seeker. She may, if lucky, find you or another Awakened teacher, as someone who has already walked this path, has arrived at some answers of her own, and can guide her to the full experience and to full comprehension of what it means. Such a teacher will, like you, know techniques to further, accelerate, deepen, or complete the Seeker\u2019s quest.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n There are many paths that may lead to Awakening. No one path will always work for every person. A combination of several paths, or of their best qualities, works better for most seekers than any one path would\u2014yet single-minded devotion to just one path may do it for some. The Gods do not want us to produce Awakening at will; such an ability would be very dangerous. However, even though Awakening cannot be produced at will, we can can make that possibility more probable, and we know that our most precious sacrament, in which we share in the joy of the Divine Lovers, is the path most likely to induce it. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n To guide another person to an Awakening, you must know, from a viewpoint allowed only by Awakening itself, what that person needs in order to Awaken. The process of reaching Awakening must be different for each person, and no conditions can be placed on what her initiation must or must not include. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n No matter how ecstatic an initiation may be, some students may still not remember who they truly are, for the angels may fetter them by many bonds. Hence you must work with such a student, divin\u00ading the patterns of her bondage, and dissolving those bonds by physical or magical or spiritual means, until she can pass upward from orgasm to ecstasy to Awakening. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Seek into the nature of the angels and spirits, to learn the nature of the bonds they cast upon men and women, so that you may undo such bonds in your students. And when you know their nature, you will have power over them (though in truth there is but one spirit in the world, and names of good or bad spirits are scarecrows to scare infants with) and over all that they rule.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n All union with the Divine is ecstatic beyond ordinary comprehension and thus is ultimately sexual, for it is the everlasting ecstasy of the God and Goddess as they play that sustains the cosmos in existence. Thus all magic is sexual, and healthy sexuality is always magical. In the mystery and sacrament of sex is all Witchcraft; you cannot work magic without raising sexual energy. Sex is not merely a path to, but itself a goal of Awakening, for Awakened sex is to ordinary sex as Awakened consciousness is to ordinary consciousness as wakefulness is to sleeping. Just as those trapped in delusion do not know that Awakening exists, they cannot know what our joy is like when we become fully healed.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Sex is not the whole truth, but it is the key without which we would be forever locked out. The quest for sexual fulfillment is not an adolescent fantasy; it IS the quest for truth. Without sex there is no initiation, no magic, for Awakening is always Awakening into sexual freedom. Whoever cannot accept this is not brave or free enough yet to reach Awakening along this path.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The Awakened Priestess and the Seeker are related as teacher and student or, classically, as Master and Apprentice. Your students may form a group that is cohesive and supportive, and may become lifelong friends, but the group will not be a coven. Their loyalties and obligations will be toward you, not toward one another, as they are in a coven. You will, of course, have obligations toward your students, will meet these conscientiously, and will not take unfair advantage of them in any way. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The Seeker who has Awakened, has learned all she can from you, and has thus reached some answers of her own about her experiences may in turn become a teacher of others. Once she has awakened, she is your equal before the Goddess; there is no hierarchy among the Awakened.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n As a High Priestess, you may have some of our most precious gifts; not everyone in our family, not even our Queens, need have them all. One is the ability to induce an Awakening in another instantaneously. Only if you are utterly an unflawed servant of the Goddess could you have that power; the Gods withhold it from all others.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Another is the ability to restore yourself or a Witch you are initiating to a state of innocence. That is, when a Witch Awakens, all the guilt and shame and self-loathing induced by maltreatment and oppression in our society may suddenly fall away, as she realizes those sins against her do not define who she is, realizes she can release them, and she will feel again as innocent, pristine, and morally justified as at age 13. This is the reality behind the myth of Diana\u2019s restoring her virginity. Being able to restore the state of innocence is the most reliable earmark of the truly Awakened High Priestess, who really can work magic, can free her initiates from the glamour that has bewitched them, from the emotional plague that has crippled their sexuality, from the state of delusion that has enslaved them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n When you have Awakened, you must balance your pleasure against your duties. If you have sex with someone, that will be an initiation; power will be passed. You might catalyze release of your lover\u2019s powers, turning her into a Seeker, or your play might spontaneously become a True Initiation, Awakening her. In either case, it will be your duty before the Goddess to train, mentor, and finally fully initiate her. Hence, if you have sex with anyone, whether male or female,you must inform the person ahead of time about what might happen. For a person to whom you cannot tell the truth about who you are, you might be wiser to seek your pleasure elsewhere. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Being Awakened, like the Awakened of any other path, you can choose your own standards, exercise free choices, and thus have free will. When not distracted by mundane worries and human frailties, you can be aware of the presence of the divine at any time, in any place. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n You will want only to be safe, to love, to be loved, and to serve. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n You will be humble, knowing that you are not the one running the universe. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n You will be grateful for and celebrates all the gifts of the Gods, especially the ecstasy of our sexuality, which sustains us, motivates us, enlightens us. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n You will not be driven by desire for wealth, fame, or power. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n You will persevere in pursuing knowledge, truth, and wisdom. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n You will seek out opportunities to be of service to others. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n You will value and enjoy every person as unique. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n You will never want to harm any living being. <\/span>Any person in any society who claims to be Awake yet is willing to harm another, by action or inaction, is still lost in delusion. As a High Priestess, you are the Goddess and must be the friend of all mankind, not an enemy who would do harm. A God would never harm a human; so people who would harm others are still deluded, and not Gods. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n You must persevere in drawing others up toward Awakening without support from any but our family. The Awakened are always shattering convention and going beyond it in our never-ending search for truth, just as new conventions are always being created by those who fear to reach for Awakening and fall back into hierarchies, rules, laws, canons, and traditions. You must therefore be a heretic from all religions, even the one called Witchcraft. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n May the peace, the power, and the magic of our Goddess Diana be always with you. Always remember Aradia. So mote it be.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a discrete unit from my ongoing Books of the Sacred Marriage. 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