Christian Wicca

Introduction

Christian Wicca is a new path of Christian spirituality and a new tradition of Wicca, often referred to as the modern term for the Old Religion, or “the religion of the wise.”  Christian Wicca is the practice of Wicca acknowledging the Christian Godhead as the practitioner’s choice of Deities, recognizing both the male (God) and female (Goddess) aspects of the One Triune God, as well as the promised Solar God (Jesus), Lord and Saviour.

Wicca is the revival of the religion of the wise, recapturing its spirit and practices.  This modern practice is based on the old ways of communing with the Divine through Nature, along the lines of the Latin phrase Deus et Natura, meaning “God and Nature.”  Originally, this religion did not have a name; it was simply what the people were brought up to believe.  It was not called witchcraft with all its negative associations until the Inquisition found it to be a threat to the rise of the new Religion in Rome called Christianity.

The term Wicca is derived from the old Anglo-Saxon word “wicce,” (pronounced “witch-eee”) and there you can see what gave rise to the commonly used word “witch.”  “Wicce” meant a practitioner of the Old Religion, as well as reflects the influence of the Old Norse word “vitke,” which meant “a priestess or seer.”  The word pagan is from the Latin “paganus,” which means “a country dweller.”  “Heathen,” another related term also misinterpreted, which means “one who dwelt on the heath.”  The heath would be the plains or flatlands. 

The writings and teachings of Gerald Gardner of the New Forest coven in England mark the dawning of Wicca.  After the last of the anti-witchcraft laws in England were repealed in 1954, Gardner published his coven’s Book of Shadows along with others believing that the Craft was dying out.  He dedicated his life to retrieving lost information about the native religions of Europe.  This was a difficult task because most of the old religion was handed down from generation to generation by mouth; keep in mind that most farming cultures could not read or write.  Unlike Christianity, there was no “Bible” simply because the modern printing press had not been invented at the time!

This approach of communing with the Divine as the Holy Trinity via the personal spiritual methods of Wicca is the key to the name of this Wiccan tradition - Trinitarian.  The definition of Trinitarian Wicca is as an eclectic form of Wicca mixed with various aspects of Christianity, which may differ with each practitioner.  These sources of Christianity include the Holy Bible, the Kabbalah, the Apocrypha, Pseudopigrapha, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, especially the Gnostic Gospels.

Not all of the Judeo-Christian books written actually made it into the Holy Bible.  For example, the Apocrypha is a generalized term for any spiritual writings that are doubtful of authenticity or of questionable authorship.  The Books of the Apocrypha are the fourteen books of the Septuagint, or the Greek version of the Old Testament.  Judaism rejects the Apocrypha, as does Protestant Christians, who regard is as non-canonical.  However, the Roman Catholic Church fully accepts eleven of the writings into the canonized Catholic Bible.  

The Pseudopigrapha is a group of early writings not included in either the canonized Bible or the Apocrypha.  The “pseudo” aspect of the word denotes that these writings were fictitious or written with the intent to deceive by ascribing them as writings of popular characters of the Bible.  The major difference of the Apocrypha and the Pseudopigrapha is that the authorship of the Apocrypha is uncertain.  On the other hand, the authorship of the Pseudopigrapha is presumed to be written under the false names of famous prophets and key figures from the Old Testament.

The word "canon" comes from the Greek word kanon, a rod used to measure.  The meaning of canon applied to the Bible is a list of books considered the true authoritative scripture by a particular religious sect.

This is a very important time in the history of Christianity.  The Dead Sea Scrolls uncovered answers to many questions that the world has asked for over two thousand years.  The cover up of so many mistruths about Christ and the early Church is causing the world to rethink organized religion.  Many people are turning to Wicca, but they are not turning away from Christ.  This is going to be the most difficult point for fundamental Christians to accept.  The need for the presence of Jesus with the cosmic balance of a Heavenly Mother as well as a Heavenly Father is the new pathway to the Christian Divine - and many are taking this pathway by the means of Wicca.

The term eclectic is often associated with Wicca.  It is best defined as selecting and composing spiritual knowledge from various spiritual sources, magio-religious systems, and doctrines of enlightenment that brings the practitioner closer to the One True Creative Spirit. 

The eclecticism of spirituality is becoming more and more prevalent in our society today as spiritual seekers of knowledge are becoming increasingly aware that there is no “single true way” of enlightenment nor is there any one single religion that has all the answers to the meaning of this life and the after life.  It deal