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The Pagan Creed
Before any religion there was... Paganism. The sanctity of the earth is being destroyed by unbridled technology. We must rediscover the soul of all things. I seek an emergence of primitive rationalism freeing the human spirit from the bonds of technological superstition. I seek an affirmation among the educated of ancient pagan civilization. We have inherited the pagan affirmation of life to which every true artist is committed. The hidden nature of humanity is revealed in initiation into paganism. The pagan appreciation of beauty and excellence in the manifest world challenges the Christian contempt for the flesh. I seek the reassertion of pagan values.
Paganism offers a possible substitute for religion for a pluralistic and multicultural society.
Paganism because of its pluralistic nature even as a banned cult can be practiced in private.
Paganism is a living tradition waiting to be recognized and reclaimed.
Paganism has waited for an age of independent thought.
Paganism is a return to the essentials of life.
Paganism unites the artist, priest, and warrior.
Paganism is nature venerating, polytheistic, recognizing deities of both genders.
Paganism deliberately continues the outlook of antiquity.
Paganism's Purpose now is to reanimate the most ancient religion giving a sense of ancient justification and of manifest destiny in natural form. In paganism any deity is descended from practical functions in the everyday life of their human communities. I. E. the veneration of the spirits of place, the ancestors and more abstract beings. In pagan tradition each deity has it's place.
Paganism believes that all science has a sacred function.
Paganism embodies the most hidden secrets of philosophy.
Paganism a philosophical system offers an ethical account of human excellence achieved by understanding rather than by blind obedience.
Paganism is nature venerating, setting human life in harmony with the "Great Cycles" embodied in the rhythms of the seasons... Nature Mysticism.
Paganism views of nature as a theophany, a showing forth of divine essence, leading
naturally to a belief in magic and foreknowledge. In paganism magic like any other source
of individual power is strictly regulated.
Paganism recognizes that the celestial mundane and the Nether Worlds are linked by the cosmic axis and extended to the plane of the ecliptic.
Paganism describes the nature of the universe.
Paganism understands that the light and the dark have their place in the natural order.
Paganism views the rule of nature as either good or neutral.
Paganism has guidelines and precedents but no dogma. The idea of a devil is not found in paganism.
Paganism unlike religions that are unnatural, unsophisticated and irrelevant to personal spiritual needs. Free thought is a pagan tradition.
Paganism reveres the earth with the veneration of "spirit of place". Geomancy is a pagan tradition.
Paganism counts nights not days.
Paganism has a reverence for the spoken word.
Paganism has an individualistic oral tradition with no written scripture.
Paganism honors ancestors, spirits of the land and elements.
Paganism worships the gods in the woods without using temples... the ancient pagan spirit of "temple-in-landscape".
Paganism worships the individual and the gods of nature such as the sun or moon, fire, rivers, springs, waterwells, stones, groves or forest trees of any kind and loves witchcraft, spells, sacrifice or divining.
Paganism uses hills as the "loci" of pagan observances. North is the direction of the gods.
Paganism worships at altars and idols. Most worship is conducted out of doors and at sacred places in the countryside.
Paganism has no full—time priesthood. Sacred pagan places of worship must be founded and maintained independently.
Paganism has a desire for simplicity of ritual and belief.
Paganism tolerates no abuse of animals or trees.
Paganism desires to live in harmony with nature and other members of society and to follow the will of the gods.
Paganism seeks mystery rather than revelation.
Paganism honours and prays to the dead…Christians pray for the dead.
Paganism teaches death is not to be feared if you accept the souls immortality.
Paganism believes there is a component of the human being that does not depart with the soul but becomes reincarnate on earth in animals and plants... especially trees. "siela" "vele". Cremation was practiced so the dead would not become wholly earth bound spirits.
Paganism believes that death is a doorway into another world.
Paganism maintains the sacred peace between the divine world and the human world.
"Pax Forum".
Paganism is a different model of community suitable for people in contact with differing social norms in a international community.
Paganism contains ancient tenets of ancestor worship hearkening back to an even older Ancestor Clan.
Paganism believes that members of certain Clans were descended from totemic beasts.
Paganism maintains shrines to clan gods.
Paganism values abstraction and self reliance as much as Clan obligation and affiliation with the spirit of place.
Paganism is individualistic and includes magical practices.
Paganism places emphasis on individual experience, both intellectual and mystical.
Paganism is devoted to individual achievement and prowess rather than to collective pursuits such as nationalism.
Paganism favors particular individuals and has an affinity with such individuals characters, emphasizing the distinguishing traits of personality which originally affiliated that person with Paganism.
Paganism makes no claims to be the one true way for anyone nor denies freedom to others or suppresses other ways of religious practice and belief.
I dedicate my life and all that I am to the continuity of the Pagan Mystery Cult... Pagan Ideals of human virtue... Pagan magic... Pagan art and the development of an elaborate intellectual structure from the vernacular practice of Paganism.
Pagan society is deeply stratified and defined with everyone knowing their place. Individuals are respected beyond their economic class for good manners and learning. There is no belief in that people are intrinsically equal. There is no sin, Pagans can do unworthy deeds or make mistakes or even be unenlightened, (in the terms of the mysteries) but sin and guilt are meaningless concepts. "Heresy" to a Pagan is the same as its original Greek meaning
— a choice
