A Creation Story

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Leo*Moon
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A Creation Story

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I was inspired to post this after reading Wolf's post about spiritual dilema and self deification etc. I came across this at Witchschool.com which is mainly about Correlian Wicca. This is a creation myth they adopted from old Italian beliefs (Stregheria) I've simplified and chopped it up to fit in this post, if you want the full 10 pages of this lesson, PM me.

CREATION

According to the Vangelo delle Streghe;

“Diana was the first created of all creation. In Her were all things.”

For endless aeons Primeval Deity existed in this amorphous and undifferentiated state, in the darkness before the first creation. At first She slept, aware of nothing, resting and recharging, gathering Her energies and merely being -alone and complete in Herself.

But over the course of time, Primeval Deity began to stir; to become aware. First She became aware of Her own existence. In time She began to think, to dream, to question -to desire. She wondered; What would it be like to feel? What would it be like to move? To take action? To be able to receive sensation? To see? To taste? To hear?

And so for aeons Primeval Deity thought, and considered, and wondered. And then;

“Out of Herself, the first Darkness, She divided Herself. Into Darkness and Light She was divided. The God, Her brother and son, Herself and Her other Self, was the Light.”

Primeval Deity divided Herself -One became Two.

All of the physical, tangible, volatile parts of Primeval Deity went into the God, who was the Light. The God exploded into existence out of Primeval Deity in a shower of spark and flame which we remember as the Big Bang, the starting point of physical creation.

All of the spiritual, ethereal, eternal parts of Primeval Deity remained in the Goddess. In this sense Goddess is thought of as a continuation of Primeval Deity, since the consciousness of Primeval Deity is one of the Spiritual parts that remained with Her.

And the God spread out in all directions through the primordial void, a blaze of light and superheated matter. In time His fire would cool into stars, and from stars to Planets. As this happens the vibration of the matter slows, it becomes more dense, seemingly solid.
“And when Diana saw that the light was so beautiful, the light which was Her other half, her brother the God, She yearned for it with exceeding great desire. Wishing to receive the light again into Her darkness, to swallow it up in rapture, in delight, She trembled with desire. And this trembling was the first dawn.

But the God’s light fled from Her and would not yield to Her wishes. He was the light which flies into the most distant parts of heaven, the mouse which flies before the cat.”

Seeing the beauty of the God -that is, of the physical Universe- the Goddess was entranced with desire, and wanted it back. She had dreamed of seeing and tasting and doing, but being separate from the God She could do none of this. She could only observe from outside that which She had created. The Goddess wanted the experiences She had dreamed of, and so She desired to take the created Universe back into Herself... But it wasn’t that easy.

The Vangelo tells how The Goddess went to the oldest part of Herself, Primeval Deity -Who was still within Her. The Vangelo calls Primeval Deity “The Mothers and Fathers who were before the first creation” emphasizing Primeval Deity’s androgynous aspect.

In other words, the Goddess consulted Her own Higher Self. In many ancient myths -notably the story of Demeter and Persephone- this same process is shown as the Goddess entering Hekate’s cave to take council of the eldest and wisest part of Deity.

In the Vangelo Diana asks Primeval Deity how She could reunite with the God -how could Spirit take Matter back into Itself? And the Ancient One, Primeval Deity, the Goddess’ own Higher Self, answered in this way;

“To rise You must fall. To become the greatest of all Goddesses, You must first become a mortal.”

In other words, it was not possible for Spirit simply to take Matter back into Herself. If the Goddess wished to reunite with the God, to be one with Matter and experience it, She had to enter into the physical world. Only in that way could Goddess and God reunite.

And so Diana “fell” -that is to say She descended through the Seven Planes to the Physical. She did this by dividing off parts of Herself -the many souls- which she sent into the Physical, placing them into physical forms. Each soul was to lead many lifetimes, going through many physical forms in the process. Reading this now, you are one of the lifetimes of one of those souls, which are part of the great Goddess. We are Her children, and also children of the God, for our existence is the accomplishment of their union.
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ~Shakespeare
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Post by Fox Flame* »

Oh, would this be the Goddess in "The Gospel of the Witches" that supposedly sent her daughter, Aradia, to Earth and teach humans witchcraft?

Been a long time since I've read up on Stregha, though, so I could be wrong..
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Post by Leo*Moon »

Yes, I believe it is.
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ~Shakespeare
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