Another World, February 2023
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Five Principles of Green Witchcraft (with Asa West) begins 23 February, 2023
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In this month’s Another World
Eight of Batons: Foreword to Melinda Reidinger’s The White Deer by Gordon White
We derive the word “spirit” ultimately from the word for “breath.” So it is an essence that can enter and leave a physical form. And to be the Emu Goddess is to be above “mere” emus, or at least to be somehow bigger than an emu one might encounter in the wild. How we conceptualise our non-human brothers and sisters under the fifth sun tells us everything about our cosmovision. If the White Hart is, to you, some kind of deer spirit then you are operating inside at least a partial dualism. There is a special “deerness” that can enter and leave the otherwise base or lower matter of the physical deer. If you conceive of the White Hart as some sort of God then perhaps you are closer, as divinity does not necessary preclude the physical or material encounter.
The Pagan Music List 29
In this 29th edition of the Pagan Music List, we review the music of Ofdrykkja, Lindy-Fay Hella, and Artesia
The fourth in the new series on political religion from Rhyd Wildermuth, an in-depth long read on how Christianity’s fear of the demonic birthed the modern Nation-State
Christianity is not just based upon a belief in human salvation and resurrection, but also a fanatical obsession with the imminent destruction of the world. In fact, in order for the promised resurrection to occur, the world as we know it must end in mass slaughter, demon-led wars, plague, famines, and all manner of other calamities. Then, the earth will be consumed in fire, burned up completely, and finally remade by the God who destroyed it.
At some point, then, the “city on a hill,” the heavenly city of the faithful—the Christian order itself—will be destroyed. Not just will be, but also must be, because the promised bodily resurrection of the faithful and the creation of a new heaven and a new earth cannot happen until this world is destroyed.
The consequence of this apocalyptic trigger—without which Jesus cannot return and God cannot fulfill his plan—is that the human state exists in an apparently contradictory position. On the one hand, it is there to serve God and protect the faithful from the demonic chaos; on the other hand, by doing so it is staving off, delaying, or even restraining the promised end-times, the eschaton.