Thirteen Principles of Wicca

 

• Wiccan practitioners use ritual and rites that connect them to the natural rhythm of life. There rituals coincide with the quarter and cross quarter phase of the moon.

• They believe there intelligence gives them a deeper understanding of our environment. They seek harmony with nature, and that balance offers fulfillment of life and consciousness within.

• They acknowledge power greater then themselves. Because it is greater then them, they call it the “supernatural”. They see it as lying within that is the naturally potential of all. 

• They perceive creation or the power to create as a manifestation of feminine and masculine power that is in all people and function through us. They value neither the feminine or masculine above the other and that each part supports the other. They value sex as pleasure and a symbol that embodies life. Where it is also a source for energy for magic and religious worship. 

• They recognize both outer and inner world, or psychological sometimes known as the spiritual world, the collective unconscious. They see the inter-action as two dimensions that are based on paranormal phenomena. They neglect neither dimension seeing both as necessary for fulfillment.

• Wiccans do not recognize any hierarchy authoritarian. However they honor and respect those who decide to teach and share knowledge and wisdom. They cherish those that are courage and given themselves to leadership roles. 

• Practitioners see religion, magic and wisdom as living being united in the way they view the world and live with in it. This is a worldview and philosophy of life, which they identify as witchcraft or the Wiccan way. 

• Wiccans believe one can call them selves anything but it is actions and the control of themselves that makes life possible to live wisely without harm to others and in harmony with “Nature”. 

• Wiccan search to understand their role within the universe by doing so they believe they are affirming and fulfillment their continuation of evolution and development of consciousness and giving meaning to there surrounding.

• There only animosity towards Christianity, or other religion and philosophy of life, is that its institutions have claimed to be 'the only way' and have sought to deny freedom to others and to suppress other ways of religious practice and belief.

• American Witches, pensive threatened by debates on the history of the Craft, origins of various terms, the legitimacy of traditions.

• Wiccan do not believe in absolute evil, or worship any entity known as 'Satan' or 'the Devil' defined by the Christian tradition. They do not seek power through the suffering of others, nor accept that personal benefit can be derived only by denial to another.

• Finely they seek within nature that will contribute to health and well-being.

(Daschke and Ashcroft, eds 2005: 102)