Ronald Hutton Vs The Witch Of Endor

The main part of this post consists of a list, spanning over 400 years, of primary sources attesting to the use of the English word "Witch" (or in some cases an equivalent word in another European language) to refer to someone whose magical workings are beneficial to others, including especially persons who perform healing, mediumship, or divination, or who can provide protection against (and/or relief from) malefic magic ("curses").Several of the...

The Challenge Of Raising Teens

Pam and I have been leading a class for the last few weeks for the parents of teen-agers. Called "The Age of Opportunity," we're reading through Paul Tripp's book by the same title and learning together a little more about being better parents.Our latest topic was how we help our teens respond to the surrounding culture. "Culture" is simply the sum total of the stuff around us: school, friends, career choices, social media, movies, internet, styles,...

A Concise Adamic History

WHY THE SERPENT IS THE EMBLEM OF THE HOUSE OF ENKIA long, long time ago (in a galaxy not so far away - in fact, in the Milky Way itself), there was a "rebellion" amongst the Archangelic Host, as a result of which certain Aspects of the All-Being One "separated" from Source and began an experimental evolutionary spiral which eventually led them into the Metatronic Waveform Universe (where geometric structures, i.e. forms, take on a significance of...