This article gives a deep look into the increasing membership to wicca and witchcraft in society today. It examines the rise to popularity, how it was embraced by celebrities and its devastating attraction and hold on teenagers. Wicca a modern pagan, witchcraft religion, was introduced to the public in 1954 by Gerald Gardner, its followers are called ‘wiccans’, there is estimated to be nearly a million practicing wiccans, making it the fifth largest religion in the world today.
This is what Jesus and many apostles warned us about, we are seeing that prophesy unfold before our eyes!
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils – 1 Timothy 4:1 (KJV).
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many (Matthew 24:11 (KJV).
Nothing New under the Sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
The practice of witchcraft, “goddess worship” dates back to Babylonia, Ishtar – the pagan goddess of fertility was the main goddess of Babylonia and Assyria. She was the wife and mother of Nimrod (Babylon Tower), and together, their wickedness destroyed the kingdom and introduced seducing spirits, rituals, and worship and sacrifices to foreign gods.
It is a practice that continues today, in many forms. While these practices are not boldly titled “witchcraft” (also meaning Wizard) its important to point out the underpinning of these teachings wicca, witchcraft, and paganism rituals, new age (meditation, yoga, mother earth), queen mary worship (Roman Catholic Church) etc., all have very similar and connected practices.
A map of where WIcca is mainly practiced. Studies reveal that not all Wiccans admit to practicing, therefore, the accuracy is limited.
The main teaching and common crux, is women usurping the headship of our God, and a husband, replacing it with the empowerment of ‘woman.’ They teach that the bible “degrades” women, and therefore Eve’s rebellion is exhorted as a sign of strength and empowerment, rather than a disobedience to God. In Jewish folklore and the Midrash, an alternative story to Eve was created. According to this doctrine of devils, Lilith is the first “Eve,” and when Adam tried to exercise dominance over Lilith, she rebelled and fled the garden. Today Lilith is seen as a symbolic reference to power, a seductress who commands power, and often using sexual domination to get her way. The Jewish community even named a magazine after her.
All of this is enticing because it provides a role that many women can identify with, appealing to the escape of moral condemnation, and giving rise to the rebellious and sinful nature inherent in mankind. Its lure is control, sex and power, because it creates an independent woman, who is strong and powerful, who challenges the oppressive system in which she is placed. The “seducing spirits” blinds its captives, using sex to manipulate and entice men who also become snared. There are numerous accounts in bible history ( King Ahab and Solomon) where men tolerated the pagan idol worship and practices (See Kings and Chronicles) – overlooking the abominations, hardening their hearts toward God, in order to satisfy their own sexual desires and lust. The bible describes this as being turned over to a reprobate mind (See Romans 1).
At the core, it is the spirit of Jezebel the bible speaks about, and it manifests in many different arena’s and customs throughout the world.
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols- Revelation 2:20 (KJV).
The not so obvious movement manifested itself in full swing with the ‘feminist movement,’ women’s rights and women’s lib, and lesbianism, and finally LBGTQ. Now many mediums seductively entice their followers in many forms, Common Core doctrine in schools , T.V. and Movies (Betwitched, Samantha the Teenage Witch, the list goes on and on), celebrities who flash the symbolism and associate ‘riches’ with the power. This ‘jezebel spirit’ continues to beguile mankind, and is one of the main reasons, mankind continues to fall and spiral to the pits of hell, its driving forceful attaction is lust and power.
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death – Revelation 21:8 (KJV).
The basis of this doctrine of devils, rebels against and defies the natural order of God’s role for women and men. When in reality, the roles that God set for women and men were not oppressive, but harmonious and perfect. Nonetheless, as prophecy told us, “In the last days … men shall be … lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.” 2 Timothy 3:1-4.
Witchcraft is a complete rebellion against God in all ways possible.
Today, we have a society full of divorce, women usurping the power of their husbands, or using sex to entice men to achieve control, households where the woman controls the man, godless men and women, who are led by their desires and love for pleasure and control, teenagers who involved with drugs, early pregnancy, all a result of these underlying teachings. REBELLION. The liberation of freedom and tolerance of all things evil. A society where obeying God seems oppressive, and evil is veiwed as FUN. Further enabling this movement is the belief that there is no hell, therefore no consequence for sin. The same lie, told over and over again, in many different ways, all with the same result, eternal damnation to hell.
It is time, to come out of her! If you are involved in any of these practices, please contact me so we can get you deliverance and healing. Jesus accepts us where we are, with open arms and forgiveness.
Yours In Jesus Christ Faithful Service,
Lisa Muhar
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“I’m really a witch,” rapper Azealia Banks quipped last January, shortly before all hell broke loose on her Twitter account.
Banks is known for her online rants. She tends to share fairly dense ideas, spontaneously spun out in punchy lines liberally interspersed with curse words. I don’t know a person on this earth who can agree with every one of them, but her opinions are smarter than she usually gets credit for.
Still, even by Banks’s standards, the witch thing was weird. It came out in the middle of a run about black Americans and their relationship to Christianity:
I wonder if most of the black American Christians in the US know WHY they are Christian. I wonder if they even consider for a SECOND that before their ancestors came to the Americas that they may have believed in something ELSE.
Not uncontroversial, but not wrong. Banks then suddenly took a hard left into what seemed like either a joke, or an unexpected embrace of Harry Potter fan fiction. She went on:
But really, it’s all about magic. The most magical people are the ones who have to deal with oppression, because the non-magical are jealous. That’s why Jews and Blacks have been persecuted over and over again throughout history. because they have the most magic … all I’m trying to say is that black people are naturally born SEERS, DIVINERS, WITCHES AND WIZARDS. we have REAL supernatural powers, and the sooner we ALL learn to cultivate them and access them, the sooner we can REALLY fix s**t.
Then she joked that racism might end a lot sooner if black people could make their enemies sicken and die with a thought, and of course the rightwing publications started sounding the klaxons.
It was the strangest thing: simply by calling herself a witch in public, Banks had managed to evoke real fear. Rightwingers treated her as if she were actually planning to blight crops and hex her enemies, all the while claiming that they didn’t believe in witchcraft.
Given the strength of the reaction, you would think that Banks was the first woman to cross over to the dark side. You would be wrong. Witchcraft – and the embrace of “magical” practices, like reading tarot cards – has recently experienced a resurgence of sorts among young, creative, politically engaged women.
The Magic Symbol – Notice how it looks very similar to the Medical Symbol?
This is largely reflected in niche corners of US pop culture: 2013’s American Horror Story: Coven, in which witchcraft stood in for girl power, was the most popular American Horror Story season ever. A popular Tumblr blog, Charmcore, purports to be run by three witch sisters; it gives sarcastic “magical” advice and praise of the female celebrities it deems to be “obvious witches”. On the more serious side, teen sensation Rookie magazine has published tarot tutorials along with more standard-issue feminist and fashion advice, and Autostraddle, a popular left-leaning blog for young queer women, has an in-house tarot columnist. Speaking of which, those tarot cards are available in trendy Brooklyn knickknack shops and Urban Outfitters, as well as new age stores. And these days, no one thinks there’s anything weird about herbal medicine and other potions.
In vogue or not, Banks was continuing a heritage of women’s activism that stretches back decades by expressing her politics and invoking the fearsome power of a “witch”.
“To reclaim the word witch is to reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful,” wrote Starhawk, in her seminal 1979 book The Spiral Dance. “To be a witch is to identify with 9 million victims of bigotry and hatred and to take responsibility for shaping a world in which prejudice claims no more victims.”
Today, The Spiral Dance is in its third edition, and has sold over 300,000 copies. It is many people’s first introduction to Wicca, the earth-based spiritual movement that was created in the 1950s and has come to be a recognized religion around the world. It is also one of the most well known and comprehensive texts from a very particular moment in feminist history which until recently was largely unfashionable: the “women’s spirituality” movement, in which women radically rewrote existing religions, or simply made their own to be in line with the goals of women’s liberation.
“I’ve been involved with this resurgence of interest in spirituality since the 1960s,” Starhawk told me during a phone conversation. “It’s like suddenly the world opened up and people realized there wasn’t just Judaism, Christianity, Islam. There was a whole world of eastern religions and traditions. In the 1970s, with the resurgence of the feminist movement, a lot of us began to investigate a feminist spirituality and the goddess traditions of Europe and the Middle East.”
Ishstar (Easter) Pagan Goddess of Fertility- (Egypt and Assyria) Compare with Pictures below of the Pagan Goddesses of Wicca below.
The goddesses of wicca
Wicca, with its focus on a goddess (rather than a male god – though it has those too) and its relatively open approach to creating canon, was a natural fit for many feminist women interested in writing their own spiritual script. But women who weren’t explicitly Wiccan were also drawn to “witchy” ways of processing the world: not only did women make feminist tarot cards in the 1970s, author Alice Walker personally endorsed one set – the Motherpeace deck. Feminist psychologists such as Jean Shinoda Bolen and Clarissa Pinkola Estés wrote books on using goddess imagery and myths as means of understanding female subjectivity.
Veronica Lake in I Married a Witch. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex
It’s tempting to write all this off as fluffy woo-woo stuff (a trivialization of which Starhawk is well aware: “We’re no more nutty than most religions,” she says, “and probably a lot less nutty than some”). But the politics are there, and they hold up; mixed in with the spells and rituals of The Spiral Dance, you will find meditations on sexual violence, ecology and anarchist group building, and thoughts on how men can overcome patriarchal conditioning in order to participate effectively in leftwing activism.
What’s more, in the moment that Starhawk and others like her were practicing witchcraft as a religion, non-religious women were also claiming the witch as a symbol of their feminist ambitions. The 1970s socialist-feminist collective Witch – the letters stood for anything the leaders felt like from moment to moment, but Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell was a popular choice – held theatrical protests, starting by “hexing” the New York stock exchange and going on to attend a “bridal fair” where they unleashed white mice into the crowd.
Their protest chants were particularly catchy: “Double, bubble, war and rubble/ When you mess with women, you’ll be in trouble”.
It was a gimmick, but it resonated: “Because Witch actions could be done with a small group and were both fun and political, they quickly spread around the country,” writes Jo Freeman. “Boston women hexed bars. DC women hexed the presidential inauguration. Chicago women zapped everything.”
I asked Starhawk why she thought the iconography of the witch had such persistence in activist circles. After all, feminists could be going around calling themselves harpies, or sirens. Of all the mythological images we could pick, why does this one stick?
Wicca Symbols and meanings, see the connection between the planets, horoscopes, fortune telling, and the worship of stars and earth? All lies from the demonic pits of hell.
“I think that part of the power of the word is that it refers to a kind of power that is not legitimized by the authorities,” Starhawk says. “Even though not all witches are women, and a lot of men are witches, it seems to connote women’s power in particular. And that’s very scary in a patriarchal world – the kind of power that’s not just coming from the hierarchical structure, but some kind of inner power. And to use it to serve the ends that women have always stood for, like nurturing and caring for the next generation – that, I think, is a wonderfully dangerous prospect.”
“In each wave of feminism there’s this renewed respect for the women that came before us,” says Beth Maiden, Autostraddle’s tarot columnist who also runs the website littleredtarot.com. “I think we like to identify with the stories of women who were persecuted in the past – wise women, witches, women who practiced that kind of ‘kitchen table’ healing that wasn’t part of the patriarchal progression of medicine.”
This means identifying, as women of the 1960s and 1970s did, with ancient myths and iconography of goddesses, or with the mythological figure of the witch. But it may also mean a renewed respect for those women: the legacy of their spirituality movement seems to have been quietly re-incorporated back into the mainstream of feminism.
This is part of a larger phenomenon – the tendency for Gen X-ers and those who came after them to be “spiritual but not religious”. Rather than converting to one set mythology, younger people tend to pull spiritual ideas and practices from any source that works.
Tarot Cards can be found in any new age shop.
There’s something deeply appealing in the notion of being put in touch with an inner source of power that can’t be taken away. Not that this power needs to be something nebulous and mystical: as Suzy X, one of Rookie’s tarot teachers and frontwoman of “witchcore” punk band Shady Hawkins, says, it can be pretty damn pragmatic.
“I think one of the biggest conspiracies of a male-dominated society is the suppression of feminine intuition, in that women have been conditioned to second-guess our own hunches, or second-guess our own abilities, all the time,” she told me. “You know when you can just tell someone is creepy, right off the bat? That’s your intuition speaking.”
Embracing the witchiness – deciding you can know something about your life by looking at tarot cards and listening to your hunches, or trying to affect a situation by focusing your will on it – might be just a process by which women can come to trust themselves.
There’s also the pull of the taboo, of being a woman who does what she’s not supposed to: “It feels incredible to use all the aspects of being a woman which the dominant culture considers to be signs of weakness, like emotional sensitivity or a menstrual cycle, as tools when you are giving a reading or doing a spell,” says Marty Windahl, proprietor of Tarotscopes. “This is really the heart of being a witch for me, turning everything on its head. That, and making treasure of trash.”
Since she got in trouble for it the first time, Banks has doubled down on the witch thing, tweeting about full moon parties, card readings and her herbal cabinet.
Tell the white media that you’re a voodoo king and you like to drink rooster blood and chew glass. Stop trying to get them to relate. LOL.
She may be joking, but her objectives – to identify with persecuted ancestors, to reclaim lost ways of seeing the world, to claim the ability to be powerful and scary – are part of a long tradition. Images of witchcraft call to so many women – straight and not, white and of color, religious and devoutly atheist – because the task of reclaiming the witch is a fundamentally poetic one.
The witch, that strange woman at the edge of town – crazy, scary, ugly, disliked, but maybe, just maybe, smarter than anyone else in town – well, that’s all of us.
Source: The Guardian
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BIBLE VERSES SPEAKING WITCHCRAFT
- Exodus 22:18 – Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
- Leviticus 19:31 – Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 20:6 – And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
- Leviticus 20:27 – A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood [shall be] upon them.
- Deuteronomy 18:9-12 – When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things [are] an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
- 1 Samuel 15:23 – For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king.
- 2 Kings 21:6 – And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke [him] to anger.
- 1 Chronicles 10:13-14 – So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, [even] against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking [counsel] of [one that had] a familiar spirit, to enquire [of it]; And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
- 2 Chronicles 33:6 – And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
- Isaiah 8:19 – And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
- Isaiah 19:3 – And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
- Acts 19:19 – Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all [men]: and they counted the price of them, and found [it] fifty thousand [pieces] of silver.
- Galatians 5:19-21 – Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
- Revelation 21:8 – But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
- Revelation 22:15 – For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
