Religion is a human activity system composed of beliefs and practices about what is considered divine or sacred, personal and collective, existential, moral and spiritual. The term 'religion' to refer to specific forms of manifestation of religious phenomena, shared by different human groups. There are religions that are organized more or less rigid forms, while others have no formal structure and are embedded in cultural traditions and ethnic society in which they practice. The term refers both personal beliefs and practices as collective rituals and teachings ...
Man has always sought ways to be comfortable with God and many people find their spiritual peace within the Catholic churches, Christian churches, and Orthodox churches, but what happens when people who do not attend these churches 'traditional' find better ways to feel comfortable with God?
happens when people who do not attend Catholic churches and evangelical Christian take spiritualism as their way of life?
Spiritualism, also called spiritist theory is a philosophical doctrine born in France in the mid-nineteenth century. This doctrine is based on books written by French spiritualist Allan Kardec (1804-1869). Spiritualism itself as a "science of observation and a philosophical doctrine. According to its founder is "the science which deals with the nature, origin and destination of the spirits, and their relationship with the corporeal world. As a philosophy, includes all the moral consequences that flow from these relationships. " 
spiritist doctrine has adherents in many countries around the world, but one thing is what you read about spiritualism and another thing is when do you see with your own eyes and you realize many things, things I've always respected and I have stayed away, although I often encounter with spiritualism in my life.
Another religion that we face in the traditional life of Venezuelans in "Santeria" which are a set of religious systems that fuse Catholic beliefs with traditional Yoruba culture .
Santeria was practiced by the former black slaves and their descendants in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Panama, Venezuela, Brazil and places with large Hispanic population in United States America (Florida, New York, San Francisco, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Miami and San Diego).
religion currently has a presence also in Spain, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, England, France and other countries where a considerable number of Cuban immigrants. In Venezuela, the region Caracas is where the greatest concentration of santeros and babalawos in the country but are also found in Cumana, Coro and Maracay. In Colombia, although it is very hidden, you also have the presence of Santeria or OSHA rules, especially in the city of Santiago de Cali and families are made up santeros awos and Cuban babalawos , including present and stores will have items for Santeria.
In Venezuela we came across a diversity of religions that are now accepted as part of our culture and are taken as how to approach God and to help progimo, and is known religions are not criticized because it is so commonly seen.
Continuing my research I come across a word that even though it sounds something strong and if it means a bit ugly.
Witchcraft
This is taken as the set of beliefs, skills and activities attributed to certain people called witches (there is also the masculine form, warlocks, although less frequent) that are supposedly endowed with some magical abilities used for the purpose of causing harm . (TEXUALMENTE OF WIKIPEDIA)
The belief in witchcraft is common in many cultures since ancient times, and interpretations of the phenomenon vary significantly from culture to culture. In the Christian West, witchcraft has been mostly related to the belief in the devil, especially in the modern age, which sparked an obsession in Europe for witchcraft which resulted in numerous trials and executions of witches (which is called witch hunt. ")
Some theories suggest European witchcraft with ancient pagan fertility religions, but none has been established. Witches are very important in the folklore of many cultures, and are part of popular culture.
While this is the most common concept of "witch", since the twentieth century the term has been claimed by neo-pagan religions and occult sects like Wicca, to designate all those who practice some kind of magic, be it evil (black magic) or beneficial (white magic) or the followers of a particular religion.
A more extensive the term is used to designate, in certain societies and the wise men or shamans.
It turns out that if I start out, when I was little I was told that witches were very bad and ugly muyyy, it was not good bumping into one, and it now I realize that not and that we were brought up during many years in some aspect is wrong, because in my research process wizard or witch heard tell of any man or woman who employ the use of magic to benefit or harm someone, then there I am at a crossroads because I said they were old ugly witches with brooms and get me that not only are those old people who use the same magic that call. Continuing my research, I get to a world religion based on pagan traditions and call themselves witches and they say that God exists in a duality of man and woman, which is called the God and Goddess and the Goddess is taken as the mother of the human being is responsible for guiding us in every stage of our lives, whereas the He represented his time in the sun bright in the sky, being born and getting every day, representing the cycle that governs our lives ... and good after that I decided to dig a little more in this life of good witch and got a little information of this religion.
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Wicca is a pagan religion that is often called witchcraft or sorcery (in English, Witchcraft and the Craft), but there are groups who identify with neo-pagan witchcraft but not Wicca modern. His followers are known as Wiccans. It was popularized by British Gerald B. Gardner as a revival of the so-called Old Religion, after being initiated by a "coven" or brotherhood he had found in the New Forest area. The practice of sorcery, as proposed by Gardner, has evolved and been adapted to give way to the creation of many denominations (traditions) Wiccan existing today.
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Origins
The history of Wicca has been a source of considerable debate. This religion came to light in England, by retired civil servant and occultist Gerald Gardner. In 1954 published Witchcraft Today (Witchcraft today) once the new laws were abolished in pursuit of witchcraft in the Anglo-Saxon country. This work followed by The Meaning of Witchcraft (The meaning of witchcraft) in 1959. Gardner claimed to have found part Survivor ancient cult of witchcraft, which had been initiated into the religion by a group of witches known as the New Forest Coven (New Forest) in the region of Hampshire (England) and received the rituals were fragmented, so that was rewritten to make them workable.
Various authors such as Aidan Kelly for years have challenged these claims, arguing that the rites were invented entirely by Gardner, with loans of ceremonial magic and occult orders such as the Golden Dawn. In addition, Gardner said a friendship with the occultist Aleister Crowley shortly before Crowley's death, so that in later decades have come to speculate on the help of occult in the development of some rituals. Ronald Hutton explains that Gardner could be based on published sources of other authors such as Margaret Murray, Charles Leland and Sir James Frazer, who claimed that there had been matriarchal religion in prehistoric times and, somehow, had been preserved in secret until today in some circles secrets of witches.
Other authors such as Phillip Heselton, Doreen Valiente and Isaac Bonewits Reconstructionist groups point to the early twentieth century rather than to an ancient pagan religion completely intact. Bonewits points out that "at some point between 1920 and 1925 in England, some folklorists were joined by some of the Golden Dawn Rosicrucians and with warlocks called traditional family, to produce the first modern coven in England, joining an eclectic form different sources they could find in order to rebuild their pagan past. "
Doreen Valiente on his part was high priestess of Gardner and worked with him for touching ritual texts, although differences distanced himself from the author and researcher on ancient witchcraft and other modern trends. According to Valente, appears certain based on the structure that does not belong to Golden Dawn, Margaret Murray or any of the above sources, which can indicate the existence of an old ring found in New Forest with the collection of various sources of traditional witchcraft by Gardner.
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Wiccans celebrate the World Pagan Pride Day on 21 rd of September, with many other pagan religions of nature.
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GODS
Goddess Symbol
For many practitioners this religion revolves around two main gods, the God and Goddess, who embodies the forces of nature and relate to the mythology associated with fertility cults. The God and Goddess are seen as complementary polarities which balance expresses the same male-female polarity that can be seen in nature. Sometimes they are symbolized by the Sun and the Moon, for these lunar associations the Goddess is conceived in a Triple Goddess aspect as "Maiden", "Mother" and "elderly." For many Wiccans, Goddess has a prominent role being that sees everything. The Horned God is the spark of life within it, while lover and son of the Goddess. Dies and is reborn in each annual cycle, as a representation of the crops. The Lady of Life, holds a monthly cycle associated with lunar phases.
According to Gardner, the deities venerated in Wicca are ancient native gods of the British Isles: a Horned God of hunting, death and magic, which governs the Underworld, and a Great Mother Goddess, who gives life and regeneration after life. Similarly, advised that British wizards are not looking for connections to the gods of their aboriginal territory. In the traditional branches, the exact names of the gods remain part of secret initiation and have not been published in any book. In these years, public have suggested some generic names, such as Cernunnos and Aradia.
A key belief in Wicca is that the gods can manifest in a personal and bodily, the most important throughout the body of priests and priestesses. This event is the purpose of the ritual of "down the Moon" or "lower the Sun" which invokes the goddess to descend to the body of the priestess (or God in the priest) to perform the "divine possession" .
Moreover, the exact relationship with the gods and understanding of these is part of the individual testing of every priest / priestess. Therefore we have developed different variants of interpretation in these decades: some Wiccans are polytheistic, as well as various mythological gods the gods of Wicca are seen as independent and customized to each other. Others interpret it as "thought forms" or even "archetypes" (as the famous psychologist Jung) that embody different natural forces.
Eclectic In the Community is widespread a purely ditheist of religion, considering only two major figures generic, the Goddess (of the moon, land and sea) and God (of forest, hunting and livestock). Couples from different mythological pantheons incarnate the faces of God and the Goddess. It has also become very popular kind of soft polytheism, in which the various gods and goddesses of all cultures are seen as facets of the divine couple, with or without connection to the concepts of fertility gods they represent.
There is also a monotheistic conception, being the main figure Goddess some traditions, was considered as complete in itself. A feminist concepts, concepts have come together inspired theories on large Neolithic goddesses and matriarchal societies (such as Marija Gimbutas hypothesis), giving rise to a separate stream called "religion of the goddess." In Wicca there is also a component of animism, as it is considered inherent to the gods, nature is sacred in itself a manifestation of divinity.
Horned God symbol
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Wiccans are based on several basic principles, some are detailed below.
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's origins are uncertain Rede, Gerald Gardner mentions in several letters, though in a form and a sense somewhat different from today. The first time it appeared the Rede published as we know it today was a speech by Doreen Valiente in 1964: However, Lady Gwen Thompson in 1975 published a long poem that she said was written by his grandmother, who died in the forties, the end of which included two sentences very similar to those for Valiente. Regarding other possible sources or inspirations many have pointed out its similarity to the Law of Thelema (Aleister Crowley): "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law," which links may be justified by the collaboration between Crowley and Gardner mid of the forties. For its part, quoted the king himself Pausole Gardner, character in the book The Adventures of King Pausole (Pierre Louÿs). Not until the eighties around the time he has been given to the importance Rede now in the Wiccan community, perhaps because the character was becoming more public.
Meaning
Rede means 'council' or 'notice'. The Rede has many interpretations, often depending on the tradition or individual. The most common is trying to maintain a balance between the two parts of the phrase "that everyone does their willingness to obey the law." Damage is thus the turning point where it divides what is acceptable from what is not.
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not seem to have a clear and specific origin, but unlike other many items it seems that in origin is purely Wiccan, Doreen Valiente stated in several interviews that he believes Gerald Gardner himself invented it. However, the readings were in origin with those of today have changed, because at first seemed to be a single law applicable in the field of magic and To boot, not a moral standard. [2] [edit] Principles
* Teaching Wiccans, especially those of traditional, believe that teaching must be done within a Coven, from applicants already started. Practitioners of Wicca practiced self-initiation alone, after having studied and practiced for a period of 1 year and one day, ie a complete annual conference.
* Constant Evolution: The followers of Wicca are convinced that never cease to learn and are continually learning. Generally think they should use lessons learned to improve, on a path of spiritual evolution, not only personally but also try to improve the environment, respect for nature and everything around us, and that this respect can be extended increasing .
* No proselytism in Wicca are not actively looking for "followers", but those interested in learning and apply any of its tracks come on its own initiative. Wicca is tolerant of other religions, as it is recognized as one of the many ways to approach the gods, and there are many others who do not have to be wrong, just different to that of the wicca. [Edit] Festivities
Wiccans tend to be followed in preference to the lunar cycles and held 21 annual festivals, 8 sabbats or seasonal festivities and semi-season and 13 Esbats or full moons per year. Any activity related to the Moon, is an Esbat, which involves meeting some Wiccans to celebrate the lunar phase, within which the most popular is the full moon. The sabbats, however, are celebrations that are consistent with the cycle of Sun and its relationship with the Earth. Within the seasonal festivities are two types: major (based on the most important changes in the Earth and thus, in the tribe) and minor (the equinoxes and solstices).
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Sabbats
* Samhain (October 31st: Northern Hemisphere / May 1: Southern Hemisphere)
commemorates the death of God and his journey to the Other World, while the goddess mourns his death. It is the night that Wiccans remember their ancestors and forefathers. It is said that due to the god's journey, the mundane laws of time and space are temporarily suspended and the barrier between worlds away. Communicate with the spirits of deceased ancestors and it is easy for this time. Furthermore Samhain is considered as a turning point and beginning of the year Wiccan, the end of the cycle of life, where everything begins again.
* Yule (December 20-23: H. North / South H. 20-23 June) Winter Solstice.
Birth of God. Coincides with the beginning of the elevation of the sun and waiting for spring. Life begins to sprout and be reborn on earth slowly
* Imbolc (February 2 HN / August 1 HS)
seed is blessed. It is the festival of the maid, who is preparing for growth. Are held the first signs that spring is approaching. Also known as "Festival of Lights."
* Ostara (March 20-23 HN / HS 20-23 September) Spring Equinox.
Spring arrives, and God is love of the goddess, when nature renews itself. The rituals commemorating the increased fertility of the land.
* Beltane (May 1 HN / HS October 31)
It celebrates the union of the god and goddess, the peak period of fertility. It is also important in this party on fire because Beltane means 'fire of Bel' (Sun God). These celebrations were harshly condemned by the Christian church, believing that promoted debauchery.
* Litha (June 20-23 HN / HS 20-23 December) Summer Solstice.
is the longest day of the year, in which God reaches its maximum power before starting to weaken. Honored with bonfires at night.
* Lughnasadh or Lammas (August 1 HN / February 2, HS)
Lughnasadh wants
say 'the funeral games of God "Lugh. It is the feast of the first harvest, harvest and beginning of the symbolic death of God. The rituals serve as a reminder to promote a good harvest.
* Mabon (September 20-23 HN / HS 20-23 March) Autumn Equinox.
Day and night are of equal length. The Goddess mourns her consort as they age. The land is prepared for the absence of God. Is a good time for meditation.
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Wiccan Traditions
A "tradition" in Wicca usually involves the transfer of a lineage by initiation. There are also practitioners who do not adhere to a particular tradition. There are also many other traditions of European witchcraft have no relation to Wicca or any of its branches. In some cases, contemporary revivals of European traditions of witchcraft with different sources and better identifiable influences Gardnerian ceremonial, and historically faced with the contributions of Gardner.
For the appearance of eclectic Wiccan flows (especially from the years 70) the meaning tradition varies. Over the seed, forming a "new" tradition of Wicca is based on a characteristic set with respect to the specific beliefs, how to perform the rituals, the way of teaching, etc. With a referral to a greater or lesser degree of the system developed by Gerald Gardner to practice witchcraft.
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