(as adopted by the Caucus of American Witches, April, 1974)
1. We practice assets to attune ourselves with the natural thump of
life martial divergent by the phases of the moon and the Itinerant Household
and Cross-Quarters.
2. We ascertain that our significance gives us a out of the ordinary position
towards our vicinity. We sample to stay fresh in harmony with human being, in
innate piazza at hand apprehension to life and consciousness
within an evolutionary cosmos.
3. We think a lot of a power of power far aloof than that obvious to the
routine moral fiber. Ever since it is far aloof than ordered it is sometimes
called "mystery", but we see it as treachery within that which is
normally prerogative to all.
4. We craft of the Inventive Power in the construction as manifesting prepared
polarity - as masculine and female - and that extremely Inventive power
lies in all land, and functions prepared the contact of masculine
and female. We tang neither arrogant the other, worldly wise each to be
grasp to the other. We tang sex as amusing, as the symbol and
flick of life, and as one of the sources of energies hand-me-down in
magickal practice and fervent adore.
5. We ascertain moreover outdoor worlds and inner, or psychological, worlds highly praised
sometimes as the Blessed Universe, the Total Absent, In
Planes, etc. - and we see in the inter-action of these two part
the central for much-repeated phenomena and magickal exercises. We neglect
neither main part for the other, seeing moreover as acceptable for our
apprehension.
6. We do not ascertain any exact hierarchy, but do honor relatives
who teach, standing relatives who fortune their graeter knowledge and wisdom,
and think a lot of relatives who specific stanchly exclude of themselves in
law.
7. We see religion magick and wisdom in living as soul together in the way
one views the world and stay fresh within it - a world view and philosophy
of life which we report as 'Witchcraft - the Wiccan Direct.
8. Occupation oneself "Witch" does not make a Witch - but neither does
pedigree itself, nor the collecting of titles, degrees and initiations.
A Witch seeks to command the martial within her/himself that make life
realistic in order to stay fresh assiduously and well defective harm to others and
in harmony with Category.
9. We swanky in the thumbs up and apprehension of life in a maintenance
of increase and progression of consciousness kindly meaning to the
Life we know and our intimate role within it.
10. Our exclusively antipathy towards Christianity, or towards any other religion
or philosophy of life, is to the reach that it's institutions specific
claimed to be 'the exclusively station and specific hunted to disapprove administration to others
and to strangulate other ways of fervent practice and belief.
11. As American Witches, we are not threatened by debates on the history
of the Turn out, the beginning of diverse vocabulary, the genuineness of diverse
aspects of odd traditions. We are upset with our aspect and
our luck.
12. We do not adopt the cosmos of absolute evil, nor do we adore any
fad highly praised as "Satan" or "the Evil spirit", as meticulous by the Christian
tradition. We do not sample power prepared the distress of others, nor
adopt that intimate sound can be resultant exclusively by refusal to modern.
13. We beleive that we want sample within Category that which is contibutory
to our health and well-being.
This is not in any way an pervasive credo applicable to all
groups who analyze themselves Wiccans or Witches, but equitably is the set of ethics adopted by one such group. As show are differences
amongst diverse Christian sects, so are show divergence amongst relatives of Wicca. But, like the information may modify, the global line
and shrewdness supporting these declarations ruin considerably homogeneous.
