THE CHARGE OF THE GODDESS


Listen to the words of the Great Mother: She, Who was of old also called among
mortals, Artemis, Astarte, Athene, Dione, Melusine, Aphrodite, Cerridwen, Dana,
Arionrhod, Isis, Bride, and by many other Names:

Whenever ye have need of anything, once in the month and better it be when the
Moon is Full, then shall ye assemble in some secret place and adore the Spirit 
of Me, Who am Queen of all the Witches.

There shall ye assemble, ye who are fain to learn all sorcery yet have not won 
its deepest secrets; to these will I teach things that are as yet unknown. And 
ye shall be free from slavery, and as a token that ye be really free, ye shall 
be naked in your rites and ye shall dance, sing, feast, make music and love all 
in My praise. For Mine is the ecstasy of the Spirit and Mine also is joy upon 
Earth, for My love is law unto all beings.

Keep pure your Highest Ideals; strive ever toward them, let naught stop you nor 
turn you aside, for Mine is the secret door which opens upon the door of youth. 
And Mine is the Cup of the Wine of Life and the Cauldron of Cerridwen, which is 
the Holy Grail of Immortality.

I am the Gracious Goddess, Who gives the gift of joy unto the hearts of men and 
women. Upon Earth I give knowledge of the Spirit Eternal and beyond death I give 
peace, freedom and reunion with those who have gone before. Nor do I demand 
sacrifice, for behold, I am the Mother of all living and My love is poured out 
upon the Earth.

Hear ye the words of the Star Goddess, She in the dust of Whose feet are the 
hosts of heaven, Whose body encircles the Universe...

I am the beauty of the green Earth, and the white Moon among the stars, and the
Mysteries of the waters, and the desire in the hearts of humans.

Call unto thy soul, arise and come unto Me, for I am the Soul of Nature, Who 
gives life to the Universe. From Me all things proceed and unto Me all things 
must return. And before My face, beloved of Gods and of humans, let thine 
innermost divine self be enfolded in the rapture of the Infinite.
Let My worship be within the heart that rejoiceth, for behold, all acts of love 
and pleasure are My rituals. And therefore let there be beauty and strength, 
power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence with you. And 
thou, who thinkest to seek for Me, know that the seeking and yearning shall 
avail thee not unless thou knowest the Mystery: that if that which thou seekest, 
thou findest not within thee, thou shalt never find it without thee. For behold, 
I have been with thee from the beginning and I am that which is attained at the 
end of desire.

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THE CHARGE OF THE GOD

Then you shall be taught to be wise, so in the fullness of time you shall count 
yourselves among those who serve the Ancients; And you shall grow to love the
music of the Woodlands, to dance to the sound of His pipes in step with cloven
hooves and the forest song...

And you shall learn the Mystery of Rebirth, filling your heart with Her 
moonlight, growing in harmony with the Earth, as Her children, protective of 
your Mother...

And you shall grow in wisdom; and you shall grow in compassion. And in love 
shall you heal the sick, pursuing the arts of healing, the lore of the Mother's 
herbs... learning the psychic arts...to cure, to nurture, to help Her children 
grow. And in wisdom you shall give counsel, knowing the skills of divination, 
seeing how the children best flow in Universal Harmony, understanding planetary 
cycles and knowing prophecy.

Thus will you be the Wise Ones, knowing the lores of Nature; the Wiccans of the
heaths, of the countryside, the pagans of the cities, knowing all are One to the 
Mother; knowing all are One to the Father.

Let thy life and the lives to come be in the service of the Lord and the Lady.