Cooperation is witchcraft. This statement may seem perplexing and nonsensical at first glance, as the concepts of cooperation and witchcraft appear to have little in common. However, upon closer examination, it becomes clear that there are several similarities between the two. Witchcraft is often associated with a magical or supernatural power that enables individuals to achieve their desired goals. Similarly, cooperation possesses a transformative power that allows people to accomplish great things together. Just as a witch may use her mystical abilities to cast spells and create change, people who cooperate are able to combine their skills and resources to bring about significant achievements.
We at the Temple of Witchcraft have been looking for ways to do outreach so our distant members can feel connected to the greater work of the Temple. The Pisces ministry presents a full moon circle here at the Temple’s home in Salem, New Hampshire, every month. This year our focus for those moon circles is spell work. We were inspired to produce some spells that will be used at the Temple full moons and make them available to all our initiates and friends to join us. Each spell has the intention of creating a better world for us all. You may feel free to join us as is appropriate for your own circumstances. You might join us for all of them or just a few. We hope you will take us up on the opportunity to join in on the Great Work.
Let us erase the sides And find our emancipation Crossing the great divide Through emphatic cooperation Working hand in hand In better service to our land. For the first time, a large-scale economics study tackles this subject, definitively linking the belief in witchcraft with the erosion of social capital.
Just as a witch may use her mystical abilities to cast spells and create change, people who cooperate are able to combine their skills and resources to bring about significant achievements. In both witchcraft and cooperation, there is a sense of harnessing unseen forces. In witchcraft, these forces are often linked to spiritual or mystical realms.
Protection From Witchcraft
WITCHCRAFT claims that cooperation with evil, or the devil, gives supernatural power to those who exercise its so-called authority. But through Christ, the truth of God, divine Love, we are able to recognize the erroneous nature of this belief and protect ourselves from it.
Belief in witchcraft works through fear and hate. It appears in various guises. Where I live in Africa, for example, one of the beliefs associated with witchcraft is a belief in the divinity of one's parents. But whatever specific form witchcraft takes, a right understanding of God exposes the illusory nature of its so-called origins and shows us that because God, good, is the only power, evil has no real origin or power.
God, Mind, is the only Principle of man, His spiritual idea. In reality, man is the son of God, created in His image and likeness. The image of God is neither a personal creator nor a god. God is our Father-Mother. To believe, then, that one's elders are gods is to break the First Commandment, found in Exodus, ``Thou shalt have no other gods before me'' (20:3).
Man has no personal power of his own, but expresses his creator with-out limit. ``In Science man is the offspring of Spirit. The beautiful, good, and pure constitute his ancestry'' writes Mary Baker Eddy in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science goes on to say: ``Spirit is his primitive and ultimate source of being; God is his Father, and Life is the law of his being'' (p. 63).
Witchcraft would have us believe that evil is another power, set in opposition to God, omnipotent good. To guard against witchcraft, then, we must first of all realize that neither witchcraft nor the supposed witch has intelligence or power. God, divine Mind, has all power, and God is the source of all reality. Through a spiritual perception of God as divine Love, we are able to nullify fear and hate, and without these, witchcraft has no door through which to enter our lives.
Love, God, is All-in-all. It protects all through its unlimited goodness. The shield of Love covers and protects man and excludes all danger. Thus, as we read in I John, ``Perfect love casteth out fear'' (4:18).
Man, the image of Love, reflects his creator. He is, therefore, incapable of evil. God-created man--our genuine selfhood--is neither the victim nor the author of evil. He can neither be a witch nor be bewitched. And divine Love protects him from hatred.
To believe that someone hates us is to entertain a belief in hatred. We must understand that man has no personal power to love or to hate. From God we reflect the infinite power to love, and it is impossible for us not to love. God never made hatred. Therefore, hatred has no reality and no one can truly hate us, any more than we can hate anyone else.
This realization disarms the belief in witchcraft and enables us to demonstrate its nothingness, and thus to protect ourselves from it. No matter what the appearance, witchcraft is nothing but a belief, fed by fear and hatred. Its claims to power and authority are false because God, good, is the only source of genu-ine power. Through divine Love we can and we should cast out fear and rise above the belief in hatred. In this way we prove that neither we nor our would-be assailant can be separated from our Father-Mother God's infinite love, expressed through His Christ.
We will also be working with the thirteen goals of the witch in person and also in our journals throughout the lunar month. We will provide some journal prompts for you if you want to join in.
Cooperation, on the other hand, taps into the power of human connection and collaboration. When individuals work together towards a common goal, there is an intangible energy that emerges, enabling them to accomplish feats that would be impossible on their own. Furthermore, both witchcraft and cooperation challenge the notion of individualism. Witchcraft is often associated with community practices and rituals, emphasizing the interconnectedness of individuals within a larger group. Cooperation, similarly, requires individuals to put aside their personal interests and work towards a collective objective. It requires a sense of solidarity and a willingness to prioritize the greater good over personal gain. Cooperation, like witchcraft, can also be seen as a means of transformation. In witchcraft, spells and rituals are often employed to change the natural order of things or to bring about a desired outcome. Similarly, when individuals cooperate, they are able to transform their circumstances and create new possibilities. Cooperation allows for the pooling of ideas, skills, and resources, which leads to innovation and progress. Finally, both witchcraft and cooperation require a certain level of belief and trust. In witchcraft, practitioners must have faith in the power of their spells and rituals. Similarly, cooperation requires individuals to trust in the abilities and intentions of their fellow collaborators. Without this trust, cooperation becomes difficult or even impossible to achieve. In conclusion, while initially seeming unrelated, cooperation and witchcraft share some intriguing similarities. Both possess a transformative power, challenge individualism, create a sense of interconnectedness, facilitate change, and rely on belief and trust. By recognizing these similarities, we can gain a deeper understanding of the profound potential that lies within cooperative endeavors. Cooperation, in its own way, can be seen as a form of modern-day witchcraft that allows us to tap into the hidden forces that lie within collective human effort..
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