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- From: banerjee@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Arindam Banerjee)
- Subject: Re: Pagan Belief revisited
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.022222.8276@trl.oz.au>
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- References: <1992Nov12.174704.1488@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:22:22 GMT
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- From article <1992Nov12.174704.1488@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, by kcater@nyx.cs.du.edu (Kenneth Cater):
- >
- > I wish to express my extreme intrest in the field Dianic (?) Wiccans.
- > First of all I DO NOT practice with a coven therefore I have developed my
- > own ideas on what Wiccia means to me (first let me state that all wiccans
- > are witches BUT not all Witches are Wiccan)...for what I have seen of
- > Wicca and some of its followers...there are people in the craft that are
- > magickly unaware, it is truely sad that some groups of wicca are trying
- > the reverse of Christianity by only looking at the Godess side. It is
- > from my personal experence that the Divinity is NOT God and/or Godess it
- > is without form and without limit...To give it a gender is to limit your
- > experence with IT, however it is had for somepeople to feel close to i8t,
- > therefore we consider it God/ess that is that IT is BOTH not one and not
- > the other, but Both. To ignore one is to limit the power from which you
- > draw from Godess is to God as Construction is to Destruction (note that
- > Destruction is a nessesary part of the universe, and is not Evil for those
- > of you who see evil as a force) without one the other has little if any
- > meaning....This is my personal opinion and please pardon grammer/spelling
- > errors....
- >
- > Bless Be......
-
- It may interest you that in Hinduism we have the concept of
- ArdhaNarEshwara, which means that the Supreme is represented by half-man
- and half-woman. Theer are ancient sculptures showing this divine figure
- - in those sculptures the partitioning is done along the vertical axis,
- as i dimly recollect the left side is female and the right is male.
- Hermaphrodites obtain a special relationship in certain parts of India
- as a consequence.
-
- But this is only the approximation. In the highest Vedantic monism, the
- Supreme, is all-encompassing, without attributes, though all attributes
- flow from It. Thus the Divine, referred to as Aum, is Nirguna (without
- qualities).
-
- About 25 centuries ago, people started asking what was the point of
- worshipping the Divine if it had no qualities. This led to the
- establishment of materialistic philosophies such as Charvaka which
- ridiculed the Vedas and Vedantas and Brahmans in particular, and also
- atheistic religions such as Jainism and Buddhism.
-
- The wheel of time turns..... old fashions become new.... if somone tried
- to preserve them in the first place......
-
- Arindam Banerjee
-