Tradition



What is 'Tradition'?


Tradition is a cauldron - a circle - a structure that holds, protects and focuses the magickal flow, the current, the energy - with which as Alexandrians, as Wiccans, as Witches and as occultists we work. 

It is an active creature and a living culture which we are passed from our ancestors, and which, in our turn, we pass on to our magickal descendents through Initiation...


Tradition is a language, with its rules of syntax and grammar - within which we can then experience and express the poetry of our magickal selves - and thereby have a common language with which to communicate with our Bretheren - and with ourselves as God...

In part the nature of Tradition is in the nature of the human mind and of human society: "Culture" is a construct - a non-verbally agreed set of rules and ideas by which we interrelate with each other, and by which we filter and understand the world. "Culture" is the accretion of our forebear's hard-gained knowledge of the World and how it works - passed down from one generation to the next: we learn our culture at our mother's knee - and we learn it mostly through subconscious imitation. 

Traditional Culture develops and grows, but it mostly does so at the slow pace of nature - slowly reconciling and adding the new knowledge gained by the wild and the individualistic to the already established and agreed knowledge of the Tribe... Culture is also pragmatic: we keep what works, and we lose what does not...

But the nature of Tradition is also a reflection of the nature of the magickal world: once a thing has been done in one way it is then easier done in the same way again - it is as if the universe retains a "memory" of the act and its resonance, and so repeating that process brings about the intended result; the more "ingrained" the process into the fabric of the Universe, the more rapid and energetic the response...


Magickal Traditions make use of both of these elements: they are both an accretion of the wisdom gained by our magickal ancestors, and a conduit through which their knowledge and power is passed down to us. They are a magickal umbilical to the past, a key that unlocks a vast storehouse of knowledge...

And that is why ours is called a "Tradition"...


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