The Blood is the physical body, the G'uph.

Jing (Mana) is the Nefesh, or Fetch.

Qi (Mana-mana) is the Ruach, or Talker.

Shen (Mana-loa) is the Neshamah, or Godself.

~Muninn's Kiss

In Taoism, the Tao includes everything and formed everything.  It is both the first cause and the effect.  There is nothing that isn't the Tao.  Everything in the universe is within the Tao, and everything is part of the Tao.  It is impossible to understand.

This is very similar to the Feri description of the Star Goddess.  The Star Goddess was the first thing, before the creation of the universe.  Nothing was created that didn't come from Her.  In Her womb, the world was born.  The world is within Her, made of Her, is a part of Her.  She is unknowable and not understandable.

From the Tao came Yin and Yang.  The Tao is both Yin and Yang, inseparable, not two separate things.  Yin and Yang are a polarity, two opposites, yet connected together.  Yin creates, Yang destroys.  Yin is young, Yang is old.  Yin is female, Yang is male.  Yin moves downward, Yang moves upward.  Yin is dark, Yang is light.  Yin is passive, Yang is active.  Yin is contracting, Yang is expanding.  Yin is weak, Yang is strong.  Yin is the beginning, Yang is the end.

Yin and Yang are the Divine Twins of Feri.

Witch Eye #10: The Winged Serpent: Seeing the Divine Twins, by Anaar:

The God of Feri are twins but they are one, not separate entities. They are identical, either one or both can occupy the place of God. The Divine Twins can function alone or as a pair. Alone, they may function as a male, but are actually both male and female in each entity. The Twins may also be both female, or a male and a female. To place further confusion on the matter, the Divine twins represent a polarity. The polarity may be great or small, and are often in opposition. In fact, The Divine Twins as represented in other cultures are often seen to be rivals or adversaries.

The Divine Twins are a polarity, just like Yin and Yang.  And just like Yin and Yang, they come from the first source, the Star Goddess (Tao).  The Divine Twins are the first children of the Star Goddess.

One example if the Divine Twins are Nimue and Arddu.  Nimue is young, Arddu is old.  Nimue is female, Arddu is male.  Nimue is new life, Arddu is the Lord of Death.  Nimue is the Black Heart of Innocence, Arddu is Wisdom.  Nimue is Yin, Arddu is Yang.

~Muninn's Kiss

Third Letter to Norman Giles:

Lucet and Tettens are the Twins, the Children of Night and the Serpent, brothers and some say one and the same person. Fire and Air, growth and decay. One looks forward, the other backward. One creates, the other destroys, Castor and Pollox.

Witch Eye #10: The Winged Serpent: Seeing the Divine Twins, by Anaar:

The God of Feri are twins but they are one, not separate entities. They are identical, either one or both can occupy the place of God. The Divine Twins can function alone or as a pair. Alone, they may function as a male, but are actually both male and female in each entity. The Twins may also be both female, or a male and a female. To place further confusion on the matter, the Divine twins represent a polarity. The polarity may be great or small, and are often in opposition. In fact, The Divine Twins as represented in other cultures are often seen to be rivals or adversaries.

The Divine Twins can be seen in both Feri and 1734.

In 1734, they are Lucet and Tettens, the lord of the East and of Fire, and the lord of the North and of Air.  They are a polarity, one creating, the other destroying.  Lucet is the light-bringer; Tettens is the lord of the night, in the far north in winter.

In Feri, we once again see the polarity.  Here, they might be two males, two females, or a female and a male.  They might be Dian y Glas and of Melek Ta'us.  They might be Dian y Glas and Nimue.  They might be Mari and Krom.  They might be Anna and Arddu.  They might even be Nimue and Arddu.  Yet they aren't just a polarity, they are one.  You can't separate them one from another.

~Muninn's Kiss

I've been reading part of The way of Qigong by Kenneth S. Cohen.  It talks about the Three Treasures, Jing, Qi, and Shen.


Jing can be seen as Yin Qi.  It is sexual energy.  It is the lowest form of Qi, being closest to the body, and the earth.  It manifests as reproductive and sexual fluids (Yin Jing), and saliva (Yang Jing).  It is associated with water.

Jing is the substance of growth and development.  It reaches its peek at around age twenty-one, and then decreases unless you work to preserve it.  It creates bone marrow and brain grey matter, and flows through the bones.  It usually flows downward, but by reversing the flow and getting it flow up to the brain, the brain can be revitalized.  Jing comes from the kidneys and the lungs.  It is stored in the lower dan tian, located in the abdomen, just below the navel.


Qi, used in this context, is neutral in relation to Jing and Shen.  It is the balance of Yin and Yang.  It is associated with air.

Qi, in this context, is generated primarily in the the spleen and is stored in the middle dan tian, located near the heart.  It travels in the meridians, up and down.


Shen is Yang Qi.  It is spiritual energy.  It is the highest form of Qi, being closest to heaven.  It is associated with fire.

Shen means both spirit and "to stretch".  It travels in eight extra meridians, moving primarily upward.  It's generated primarily in the liver and heart, and is stored in the upper dan tian, located in the head behind the third eye.  Shen is best seen through the eyes.



I've talked before about the three Mothers, Shin, Aleph, and Mem, and their relationships with the three souls in Kabbala.  Shin is fire, and is the Neshamah, the Godself.  Aleph is air, and is the Ruach, the Talker.  Mem is water, and is the Nefesh, the Fetch.  You'll notice the similarities between these and the Three Treasures.  Shin is fire, like Shen.  Aleph is air, like Qi.  Mem is water, like Jing.  You'll recall that each of the souls uses, and is made from a type of energy, according to Feri and Huna.  The Fetch uses and is made up of mana.  The Talker uses and is made up of mana-mana.  The Godself uses and is made up of mana-loa.  If the three souls are associated with the same substances, fire, air, and water, as the types of energy in Qigong, and the souls use energy, it follows that the energies are the same.  Mana is the same as Jing.  Mana-mana is the same as Qi.  Mana-loa is the same as Shen.  This means that by studying the Three Treasures, we can learn more about the three types of mana, and hence about the three souls.

What Is Traditional Chinese Medicine?:

In TCM theory, blood and Qi are inseparable. Blood is the "mother" of Qi; it carries Qi and also provides nutrients for its movement. In turn, Qi is the "commander" of the blood. This means that Qi is the force that makes blood flow throughout the body and provides the intelligence that guides it to the places where it needs to be. Blood and Qi also affect one another and have the dynamic ability to transfer various properties back and forth. For example, after labor and delivery, a woman may develop a fever. TCM understands this fever to be related to blood loss, not normally an infection. Losing too much blood causes an overall Qi deficiency. When there is a Qi deficiency, the body cannot function properly and therefore presents with a fever.

So, Qi is carried in the blood and is inseparable from the blood.  In our discussion of the Fetch, we found that it is tied to the body by the blood.  One way to stimulate the Fetch and make it more health is by using massage to increase blood flow.  This also increases Qi flow.  Qi flows through the Fetch, just as it flows through the blood, because the blood can't be separated from the Fetch and Qi can't be separated from the blood.  The energy making up the Fetch is Qi.

One of the functions the Fetch has is to create mana from such things as eating, drinking, breathing, and having sex.  The Fetch gathers mana and uses it to survive.  It also passes it to the Godself, to turn into mana-loa.  The Fetch is made up of mana and feeds on mana.  If the Fetch is made up of mana, and the Fetch is made up of Qi, Qi must be the same thing as mana.

~Muninn's Kiss

As I talked about in my last post, the five Chinese elements are associated with the liver, heart, spleen, lung, and kidney. These are considered the Zang organs. They are associated with Yin.

There also Yang organs. These are called Fu organs. They are the gall bladder (wood), small intestine (fire), stomach (earth), large intestine (metal), and bladder (water).

The energy, which is also information, which flows between the organs, is called Qi (Chi). Qi flows through meridians in the body. There are twelve meridians, one for each of the ten organs and one up the front and one up the back. Qi carries information between the organs. I believe Qi is the same thing as mana in Feri.

~Muninn's Kiss

Six Levels of Healing  (Part 20): The Healing of Body and Soul:

The "connected intermediate," by which the soul--the nefesh--is bound to the body, is the blood. In the Torah we find explicitly that "the blood is the soul [nefesh]." The Hebrew word for "blood," (dam) is cognate to the word for "likeness" (demut). This level of healing relates to the Divine likeness in which man was created.

The very name of the first man, Adam, is cognate to the word for “blood” (dam). The name Adam can be read “I shall become blood,” alluding to the power to draw the nefesh into the body by means of the blood, the function accomplished by the expert physician.

The Nefesh, or Fetch, is the first soul to develop in a new baby.  It develops as soon as the baby develops a blood system.  This is during the first month.  The Ruach develops later.  The Neshamah already exists and becomes attached to the Nefesh at some point, I'm not sure when.  The Nefesh has a much older memory than the Ruach, having developed first.

It is the blood that the Nefesh is tied to.  As long as the blood is flowing, the Nefesh remains.  It actually remains with the body for a few days after the body dies, but with no blood, it is no longer connected to the body.

Blood is full of iron.  As it flows, it creates an electromagnetic field.  I believe it is this field that the Nefesh is actually connected to.

Blood has power.  This is why it has always been involved with sacrifice.  Why does blood have power?  Because it's tied to the Nefesh, where mana gathers.  The Nefesh is the life force of the animal or human.  The blood is where it connects to the body and gives the body life.

~Muninn's Kiss

Feri teaches that the lowest soul, the Fetch, or Nefesh in Kabbalah, is connected to the Godself, the Neshamah in Kabbalah.  The Talker (the Ruach) speaks to the Fetch and the Fetch speaks to the Godself.  There is a connection between the Fetch and the Godself.  But how does this work?  Kabbalah provides an answer.

The Jewish Home Chapter 5: Five Levels of the Soul - An Inverted Seal:

In the first model, the home corresponds to the highest level of the nefesh, the makeef harachok, called the yechida.

The Jewish Home Chapter 5: Five Levels of the Soul - An Inverted Seal:

The five levels of the soul are called nefesh, ruach, neshama, chaya, yechida. The yechida reflects itself in the nefesh.

Each person has three souls, the Nefesh, the Ruach, and the Neshamah.  The Neshamah is made up of three souls, the Neshamah, the Chiah, and the Yechidah.  The Yechidah is the highest level of the Neshamah.  If the Yechidah is also the highest level of the Nefesh, this shows the connection.  I find it interesting that the Nefesh doesn't just connect to the Neshemah, it connects to the highest level, the level closest to G-d.

~Muninn's Kiss

The Lwas: Marassa:

"Twins are sacred because they are living representations of the balancing forces found throughout Vodou belief. Together, they represent both the human and the divine, the mortal and the immortal. They form a connection between the physical world and the world of the spirits, and they live in both worlds. Some practitioners of Vodou believe that they are even more powerful than the lwa because of the union they symbolise."

The Voudou view of twins makes me think of the Feri Divine Twins.  Like the Divine Twins, Marassa represent opposites.  It is interesting to think of twins as both human and divine, mortal and immortal.  Feri teaches that "self is god and god is self and god is a person like myself."  We are each both human and divine, both mortal and immortal, just like the Voudou twins.  We live in both worlds.  Each one of us is the Divine Twins.

FFF
~Muninn's Kiss

The following Pentacle was posted to a list I'm part of.  The person posting it says it's in the public domain, so I think it's okay to post it here.  I'm mostly posting it so I can find it easier.  It was designed to help with being too much in the Talker and not enough in the other souls.

Start by doing Ha prayers and making Kala.  Remind the Talker (Emi, Ruach) that it is not alone.  Tell it that we are three souls that are one together.

Run the Pentacle with the following points.  Unlike the Iron Pentacle on which it is based, the energy that runs through the Pentacle is the golden-honey coloured fire of the upper part of the flame, and is made of honey.

Sex
Beauty
Passion
Pleasure
Power

"I affirm I am made for Sex, Beauty, Passion, Pleasure and Power. The manna that binds my three-souled Being is Honey."

You can run the Pentacle either around the outside (Sex, Beauty, Passion, Pleasure, Power or Sex, Power, Pleasure, Passion, Beauty) or through the points (Sex, Passion, Power, Beauty, Pleasure, or Sex, Pleasure, Beauty, Power, Passion).  Look at any complexes you have with each of the words or attributes.  Also, cleanse and strengthen each point.

The author of the Pentacle says: "Anyhow, be prepared for things to heat up. Not specifically in the ways they do when running the I.P. This is a softer Pentacle Work. But very sexy. Very sensual. And, of course, sweet!"

FFF
~Muninn's Kiss

In Feri Tradition, the world began with the Star Goddess, who brought the world into being through her lust.  She is God Herself, neither male nor female, but both and something beyond.

The Star Goddess gave birth to twins.  They are her consort, her son, her husband.  They are one with her yet separate.  They are one, but two, brothers, lovers, enemies, allies.  They are male and male, male and female, female and female, female and male, and yet still male and male.  Ever changing, ever moving.  They are the lemniscate gods, six gods male and female, an infinitium of gods and goddesses, six, infinity, two, one.  Ever changing, ever moving.

The Divine Twins can be seen as a snake and a bird, a serpent and a white dove.  Together they are Quetzacoatl, the winged serpent of the Aztecs.  They are seen in the eagle holding a snake, marking the location for the Aztecs to build their city.  In Christianity, Jesus says to be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves.

The serpent is seen twice in two different contexts in the Jewish Tanakh.  First, the serpent is who tempts Eve and thereby Adam into eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Jewish and Christian belief shows this as the fall of man.  Other groups see this as the rise of man to an enlightened state.  The second serpent is the golden serpent, raised up in the wilderness to protect the people of Israel.  In the Christian New Testiment, Jesus is equated with the golden serpent.

In the Tanakh, we first see the dove when Noah sends the dove out to find dry land.  The dove represents hope here.  In the New Testiment, the Holy Spirit comes on Jesus as a dove.  The Shekhinah, the feminine presence of G-d equates to the Holy Spirit.  In many Middle Eastern belief systems, the spirit of the gods comes upon the prophet in the form of a dove.

So, we can see Jesus and the Holy Spirit, or Moshiach (Messiah) and Shekhinah, can be seen as the serpent and the dove, as the Divine Twins.

FFF
~Muninn's Kiss

I just finished reading Etheric Anatomy: the Three Selves and Astral Travel by Victor and Cora Anderson.  Victor and Cora were the founders of Feri Witchcraft.  It's a very good book, if a little strange.  I'm glad I read it.

The first section is Victor's description of the three souls.  The second section is Cora's description of the three souls, the Ha Prayer and Kala, and of out-of-body experiences.  The final section is Victor's description of Astral sex.  That is the strange part.

The book gives the most detailed description of the three souls that I've ever read, whether in Feri or in Kabbalah.  It's a great description and one everyone should read.

FFF
~Muninn's Kiss

There is a saying in Feri:  "Do not submit your life force to anyone or any thing."  This is a very interesting saying.  It includes many things, but one of them is that blaming others gives them power over you.  When you chose to blame others, you submit your life force to them.  This is the problem with depression.  You end up blaming the depression, giving it power over you.  This brings you deeper into depression.  This is where I'm at at the moment.  I need to learn to stop blaming the depression and get out of it.

FFF
~Muninn's Kiss

Ha in Hawaiian has two meanings.  One is "four".  The other is "to breathe".  This is very interesting to me.  It is used to represent the three souls and the body (four).  The Ha prayer used in KaHuna and Feri Witchcraft utilizes four breathes to align the three souls and the body.

The fifth letter of the Hebrew aleph-beth is Heh.  Heh means "window" and is the number "five".  It is also mystically is the first "breathe", G-d breathing life into the world.  Kether, the Crown, is the first breathe, and Chokmah, Wisdom, is breathe from breathe.  The breathe is life breathed into man, the soul in three parts.  In Kabbalah, there is another soul-part, the Q'uph, which connects the three souls to the body.  It could be said we have three souls, plus the Q'uph and the body, so five parts.

The H sound seems tied both to the breathe and the souls and body.

FFF
~Muninn's Kiss

The following are good links for learning about Feri Witchcraft:

http://www.blackheartferi.com/
http://www.lilithslantern.com/
http://www.whitewand.com/
http://www.thorncoyle.com/
http://www.feritradition.org/
http://www.wiggage.com/witch/fericontents.html

FFF
~Muninn's Kiss

When Joe Wilson's son Chad asked Joe, in 1972, which was right, fundamental Christianity or 1734, Joe answered:

"What they all have in common must be close to the truth"

FFF
~Muninn's Kiss

I found mention of the Housel Rite on a Traditional Witchcraft website. The following is all I could find about Housel:

Housel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Housel was, until the Reformation, the name of the Eucharist in the English language. The meaning of the word is "sacrifice," and hunsl appears in the Ulfilas Gothic version of Matthew 9:13: "I will have mercy and not sacrifice."

The word's etymology is uncertain. The New English Dictionary connects it with a Teutonic stem meaning "holy," from which is derived the Lithuanian szweñtas, and Latvian swéts. Skeat points a connection with a root meaning "to kill," which may connect it with Greek kaínein.

FFF
~Muninn's Kiss

Prayed at the beginning of Yom Kippur, Kol Nidre has interesting connotations:

Kol Nidre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

All personal vows we are likely to make, all personal oaths and pledges we are likely to take between this Yom Kippur and the next Yom Kippur, we publicly renounce. Let them all be relinquished and abandoned, null and void, neither firm nor established. Let our personal vows, pledges and oaths be considered neither vows nor pledges nor oaths.

How much should vows bind us?  Should we make vows to begin with?  In 1734, there are no vows or oaths.  In many other branches of witchcraft, there are.  Before you make such a vow, you should think, really think, about it.  Are you willing to keep the vow?  If not, why are you saying it?

FFF
~Muninn's Kiss

TradWitch.com - Re:When is a witch not a Witch? - TradWitch.com Forum:

"Q: When is a witch not a witch? A: When they are a pagan. This was probably the first lesson that Robert Cochrane taught us when we joined his group. In the whole time I worked with him he tried his hardest to get this message over, unfortunately with very little success. This is not to say that he belittled paganism in any way, but he accepted it for what it was - something very different from the Craft, even though in the past both had shared common roots.

"So what is so different about them? According to Cochrane's definition, paganism is a religious pantheism, an understanding that nature is a reflection of the Hand of God and that god is nature total and complete. Whereas with witchcraft you have an occult science with its own distinct and separate traditions and philosophy. Unfortunately, in its lower stages, the Craft can and very often is confused with paganism. ...

"I suppose that if one had to define the true nature of the witch the most accurate picture would be that of an unlicensed practitioner of the mysteries of witchcraft ...

"To quote Cochrane: 'In other words, there is only one way of finding a witch, judge them by their works and by their silence - unless there is a need to speak out. ... Now what do I call myself? I don't, but witch is as good a word as any. Failing that, perhaps "Fool" might be a better name ... '"

- The Roebuck in the Thicket: An Anthology of the Robert Cochrane Witchcraft Tradition, Chapter Eighteen, Will of the Gods, pp. 152 - 153; By Evan John Jones & Robert Cochrane, Edited by Michael Howard, Chieveley U.K.: Capall Bann Publishing, 2001, ISBN 186163 155-3

In witchcraft, very action has consequences.

Today there was fire.  It was a structural fire.  I got a call informing me that they had closed the road near it and that they would call again if an evacuation is needed.  Before I took my nap, I prayed that the fire wouldn't spread and that the fire would be put out quickly.

I woke up to an inch of snow.  There was no evacuation.

FFF
~Muninn's Kiss

The following is my description of Traditional Witchcraft which I posted on the Traditional Witchcraft Forums:

To me, Traditional Witchcraft is Witchcraft passed down from teacher to student and experienced through rites and invocation. It is a process of learning from the ancestors and from each other the secrets of the world we live in and the gods or spirits we interact with. Unlike Wicca, it is not a fertility religion, though it can contain fertility elements and symbolism.

FFF
~Muninn's Kiss

Tools of The Trade:

Ritually, the coven cauldron is symbolic of the cauldron of inspiration found in the castle of Celtic myth. Traditionally guarded by nine maidens, this is the cauldron of the pale faced Goddess. Within the cauldron are contained all knowledge and inspiration.
To drink from it is to gain that knowledge and understanding.

Evan John Jones

כו וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, נַעֲשֶׂה אָדָם בְּצַלְמֵנוּ כִּדְמוּתֵנוּ; וְיִרְדּוּ בִדְגַת הַיָּם וּבְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם, וּבַבְּהֵמָה וּבְכָל-הָאָרֶץ, וּבְכָל-הָרֶמֶשׂ, הָרֹמֵשׂ עַל-הָאָרֶץ
כז וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאָדָם בְּצַלְמוֹ, בְּצֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים בָּרָא אֹתוֹ: זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה, בָּרָא אֹתָם
כח וַיְבָרֶךְ אֹתָם, אֱלֹהִים, וַיֹּאמֶר לָהֶם אֱלֹהִים פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ וּמִלְאוּ אֶת-הָאָרֶץ, וְכִבְשֻׁהָ; וּרְדוּ בִּדְגַת הַיָּם, וּבְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם, וּבְכָל-חַיָּה, הָרֹמֶשֶׂת עַל-הָאָרֶץ
כט וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, הִנֵּה נָתַתִּי לָכֶם אֶת-כָּל-עֵשֶׂב זֹרֵעַ זֶרַע אֲשֶׁר עַל-פְּנֵי כָל-הָאָרֶץ, וְאֶת-כָּל-הָעֵץ אֲשֶׁר-בּוֹ פְרִי-עֵץ, זֹרֵעַ זָרַע: לָכֶם יִהְיֶה, לְאָכְלָה
ל וּלְכָל-חַיַּת הָאָרֶץ וּלְכָל-עוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם וּלְכֹל רוֹמֵשׂ עַל-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר-בּוֹ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה, אֶת-כָּל-יֶרֶק עֵשֶׂב, לְאָכְלָה; וַיְהִי-כֵן
לא וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-כָּל-אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה, וְהִנֵּה-טוֹב מְאֹד; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם הַשִּׁשִּׁי

26 And God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'
27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.
28 And God blessed them; and God said unto them: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth.'
29 And God said: 'Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed--to you it shall be for food;
30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is a living soul, [I have given] every green herb for food.' And it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

As we conclude the sixth day, we come to the eighth act of witchcraft. Six is the letter Vev, the Hook, the word And.  Man is the great And. G-d had the desire for an And, for a help-mate.  It wasn't good for G-d to be alone. We are that And, that help-mate. That's the secret of Vev.

This is the eighth act. Eight is the letter Chet, the Fence. Chet represents the Bridge between the physical and the spiritual.  That is what Man is, the Bridge connecting the physical and the spiritual, for Man exists in both.

The first thing to notice about this passage is that G-d made Man is his/her image. Man is created Male and Female.  Both are in G-d's image. This has a obvious meaning.  G-d is not just Male, nor is G-d just Female.  G-d is both.  G-d sometimes manifests as one or the other, but is ultimately both.  G-d is just as much God the Father of Christianity as the Star Goddess of Feri Witchcraft.  Anything that sees the Creator as one or the other only sees half the story.   In Kabbalah, the Male gives and the Female receives.  This is why G-d is often seen as Male.  He gives to us as his Male manifestation.  But when we worship, we see the Shekhinah, the manifest presence of G-d.  The Shekhinah is Female, because G-d as Shekhinah receives worship, the Female side of G-d.

Also, G-d created us in his/her image. G-d is shown in Genesis as the first Witch, the Witch-God, performing nine acts of witchcraft to bring the world into being.  If we are in his/her image, we are Witch.  As G-d caused change, nine times, so we can cause change ourselves. G-d created a race of beings able to cause change, to perform witchcraft.  G-d created the race of Witch.

The next thing to notice is that G-d gives a command.  "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth."  First, be fruitful and multiply.  G-d wants a fertile race.  Second, replenish and subdue the earth.  There are two parts.  First, replenish.  We aren't just supposed to subdue the earth, but also replenish it.  This means we are to work to better the earth, not pollute and damage it.  Second, subdue.  We are given dominion over the earth.  We are to be rulers over all the earth, but rulers who are benevolent, who better the earth.  The third point is dominion over the animals. We are given rulership over all the animals.   Once again, we are to be benevolent rulers, looking out for the good of the animals.

Finally, we get to the plants.  Plants are given for food to both Man and the animals.  Notice that the animals are not originally given for food.  To begin with, but animals and Man were vegetarians.  They ate only plants.

And, G-d did not find it good after the creation of Man; G-d found it very good.  Man is the culmination of creation, the reason that it is very good.

And so ends the sixth day.

~Muninn's Kiss

Red Thread:

There is a story told that one of the nine mothers of the human race created the race of “Witch” using the human race as its foundation. I have no intention of putting the details of this story into the written word. To do so would allow it to be manipulated for the ends of others, who would then do with it as they will. It is enough that it is known to exist, and with its existence comes the ability to affect the dreams of those known as “sleeping witch”.
The Red Thread exists as a physical entity.

Tools of The Trade:

The Stang

The horse. It is the supreme implement. It represents the middle pillar Yggdrasill, the Ash at one end, the Rowan at the other. Its roots are Malkuth or the Gateway, that is physical
experience, and at its top is the highest mystical experience. It should be forked at the top and
bound at its base with iron. It is called the Gateway because it is phallic and presents Hermes the Guide, the Moon because it is the path to the mysteries, the foundation of wisdom and spiritual experience. It is love because it is beauty, the child of Wisdom (Horned Child). It is Death, the transformation. In other words it is the single path of enlightenment.

Robert Cochrane

Tools of The Trade:

The Noose

This is the feminine tree and should have five and three knots with a noose at one end.
Traditionally, it should also be comprised of many materials, but hemp will do. The five knots are the round of life. The three knots are the moon triad. It represents the feminine aspects of the knife, among other things, and the noose is the traditional sign of subjugation to Hecate as the End and Beginning of life, umbilical and a hangman's noose in one. It has many magical uses, most of which will come with intuition. One part of its use is to create mystical intuition by hanging: obvious reason, to overcome the flesh a la Tantric's.

Robert Cochrane

Tools of The Trade:

The Knife

This is the masculine tree. It represents intellect, Will, and represents the actual search for wisdom, experience and knowledge. It is also Choice, Love physical and generosity, Victory and conflict, also courage.

Robert Cochrane

Tools of The Trade:

The Cloak

The cloak represents the concealment of the mystery and Night the hider of Light.
Also Humility, Poverty and Charity which equals magical Power.

Robert Cochrane

THE YNGLINGA SAGA:

7. OF ODIN'S FEATS. Odin could transform his shape: his body would lie as if dead, or asleep; but then he would be in shape of a fish, or worm, or bird, or beast, and be off in a twinkling to distant lands upon his own or other people's business. With words alone he could quench fire, still the ocean in tempest, and turn the wind to any quarter he pleased. Odin had a ship which was called Skidbladnir, in which he sailed over wide seas, and which he could roll up like a cloth. Odin carried with him Mime's head, which told him all the news of other countries. Sometimes even he called the dead out of the earth, or set himself beside the burial-mounds; whence he was called the ghost-sovereign, and lord of the mounds. He had two ravens, to whom he had taught the speech of man; and they flew far and wide through the land, and brought him the news. In all such things he was pre-eminently wise. He taught all these arts in Runes, and songs which are called incantations, and therefore the Asaland people are called incantation-smiths. Odin understood also the art in which the greatest power is lodged, and which he himself practised; namely, what is called magic. By means of this he could know beforehand the predestined fate of men, or their not yet completed lot; and also bring on the death, ill-luck, or bad health of people, and take the strength or wit from one person and give it to another. But after such witchcraft followed such weakness and anxiety, that it was not thought respectable for men to practise it; and therefore the priestesses were brought up in this art. Odin knew finely where all missing cattle were concealed under the earth, and understood the songs by which the earth, the hills, the stones, and mounds were opened to him; and he bound those who dwell in them by the power of his word, and went in and took what he pleased. From these arts he became very celebrated. His enemies dreaded him; his friends put their trust in him, and relied on his power and on himself. He taught the most of his arts to his priests of the sacrifices, and they came nearest to himself in all wisdom and witch-knowledge. Many others, however, occupied themselves much with it; and from that time witchcraft spread far and wide, and continued long. People sacrificed to Odin and the twelve chiefs from Asaland, and called them their gods, and believed in them long after. From Odin's name came the name Audun, which people gave to his sons; and from Thor's name comes Thore, also Thorarinn; and also it is sometimes compounded with other names, as Steenthor, or Havthor, or even altered in other ways.

Stolen from liorah_chanah, from Biblical References In Traditional Witchcraft by Peter Paddon (in The Crooked Path Journal, Issue 3):

Annunaki - these were a group of Sumerian or Akkadian deities, frequently equated to Watchers, or Fallen Angels. Depending on how it is written, the name Annunaki means "of Royal Blood", or "princely offspring" or "heaven and earth". They are the children of Anu and Ki, and were led by the twins Enlil (Lord of the Wind or Air) and Enki (Lord of the Earth), who disputed each other's right to lead. Enki created humanity to be servants who would do the tasks the Gods would not lower themselves to do for themselves, but Enlil believed that humankind deserved a better fate than that, and caused Adam, the first man, to mate with Lilith, Enki's daughter, to introduce the Divine bloodline into humanity. This eventually became what is considered the Witchblood.

Needless to say, the concept of Witchblood is very important to Traditions that embrace these myths, and this can be an additional bone of contention for those that do not. Some Traditions hold to the idea that only some humans carry the Witchblood, but the more pragmatic realize that with the number of generations that have existed on Earth, pretty much everyone would have some of the Witchblood in their makeup. So they instead focus on the concept of Awakening ... we all have Witchblood within us, but in order for us to become Witches, that blood must be awakened, after which progress is not so much a matter of learning but remembering by tapping into Ancestral memories.