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A startlingly original lesson plan no
school or university online dares to challenge. Learn witchcraft at
home: a path into the unknown.
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Learn witchcraft at home.
Experience the fantasy.
From mr. darrow clark,
starwise society director:
Dear Sir or Madam:
Witchcraft is variously
defined as the use of sorcery or magic, as a communication with a devil or familiar, and as the irresistible influence or
fascination of a charming or alluring girl or woman.
All of my books are old,
so you can update this definition by adding 'wicca' and 'the craft' to it, and thereby help me bring my old dictionary back
into use for the 21st Century.
| Harry Potter is the reality |
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| that Radcliffe imitates. |
Witchcraft is a much maligned subject. Women who dare to practice it often become the object
of public scorn and ridicule even today. The warlock (the Old English name for a man who practices witchcraft,
as I recall) fares little better in the popular press. (In America, even Harry Potter is attacked by fruitcake religious
fanatics).
Incidentally, the above comment in the picture caption isn't a criticism of Radcliffe at all --he gives us a great Harry
Potter who is likable and never vain.
No, it is just a trickier
way to get you to see things through the eyes of Mama Bear. Things are not as they appear; things may be very different from
what they appear to be. We may be a fantasy that became a reality upon birth.
My own interest in this subject is and
has been for very many years, philosophical. Witchcraft has proven itself to be a valuable tool for exploring the unknown.
Exceedingly important mysteries of life become accessible by virtue of its expertise.
To my understanding, witchcraft represents
a lost world of Nature, magic, and fantasy. I like to sometimes picture it as a decidedly feminine affair, with the
queen of the supernatural embracing the king of the wood, but that is only one eccentric view of
a longtime romantic, so you really shouldn't take that view too seriously. Seriously considered as a subject worth looking into, the new seeker quickly discovers
that real witchcraft takes place in a field of The Great Unknown beyond science and religion. That means real witchcraft can be dangerous. Forces and powers
emanating from unknown regions may be unlike any we know here on Earth during our ordinary daytime existence. Beings-- creatures evolving from so strange a terrain --some as hideous
as the spider, the dinosaur, the virus, and more, ...may equal you in physical size and strength (and even more insideous,
may equal or surpass you in intelligence).
You have been warned. There are also realms of the greatest beauty, of heights divine. And for those of you who
are very young --destined to one day become Spacemen and Spacewomen taking flight to distant stars -- many, many adventures
are awaiting you. That, I can promise. That, I know...
| Actors assume identity via costumery. |
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| Witches and wizards summon identity via costumery. |
The craft (magic or witchcraft by academic definition)
exists outside of any establishment, yet, curiously, it is for everyone interested enough in its mysteries to actually
try it or look into it. The barriers keeping people out of this field are more imaginary than real-- a gateless
gate --and of course, witchcraft itself is always very extraordinary. For example:
Witchcraft, it is said,
can never become a church, yet wicca and traditional witchcraft have emerged as very charming nature religions in Great Britain,
or so I am told.
Witchcraft, it is said,
can only be taught by elders who have discovered for themselves, The Great Secret separating fantasy from reality, yet some
of the best teachers are young, and these secrets are better discovered for yourself through reading or exploration.
Sometimes the best
things in life are free. Certain sites (the good ones) offer you free information on these subjects (if you know where
to look). Witches by any other name have been learning the craft for thousands of years (before schools were even invented).
Witchcraft. Learning
witchcraft history, from European persecution to
Salem witch trials in America, is a good subject
for acquiring ordinary
facts about witchcraft at school or
college, but you may find here
dark mysteries hidden in
the night never dreamt of in any of
your philosophies, my dear professors. The Starwise
Society
isn't another upstart crow... It knows things others
do not.
Starwise Society Director
and Keeper of the Keys.
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