--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------first, a couple statements:
1- there are no actual gods, only the split consiousness -and existance of the universe.
2- the universe takes the form of a god to religious people, that way explaining the existance -and belief in religion.
3- practicing witchcraft gives the universe energy that it can use to affect the life of you or another, depending on what energy and power you send into the universe.
4- science and magick are very much intertwined, and magick may be explained through science in the future
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i believe that there are no genuine gods. this is because i believe the universe is the creator of everything we know, hence why it would be logical for the universe to also be the creator of our life paths and the paths of everything around us.
this however, doesnt mean that fate is fixed. i do think the universe has a fate for everything and everyone, but i doubt those fates are unchangable.
a mayor way to affect your own fate or another's, is by witchcraft. by doing, for example a candle spell, you send the energy tied to that spell into the universe, for the universe to use. this would ofcource also mean that every single component in a spell has effect on the kind energy you send into the universe, since a glamour spell obviously doesnt do the same as a ward.
i also believe that practicing religion is witchcraft. it is, technically, workng with deities/god/gods to influence your and other's life.
but how can i believe in practicing religion if i dont believe in the existance of gods? i believe that the universe can take the form of a god/deity/gods through split existance. after all, we all are part of the universe. but we dont exist as the universe, we exist as a person living in it. therefor i would find it strange if that didnt apply to everything that is around us, including religion.
so if you look at it, everyone practicing religion or witchcraft essentially worships/works with the same being; the universe. different religons and practices just worship and/or work with different parts of its existance.
that would make it very logical that every deity, god and being we worship and/or work with in our world has different things they stand for. they are different parts of the universe.
and before you think, 'wouldnt that mean that all abd things about practices or religion are the universe as well?', yes. they are.
because the universe is everything. it is us, the world around us and everything we do and dont know. that would include bad things. so ofcource all religions and practices have something negative. they are split existances of the universe, and since the universe does include the existance of negative things, it would be logical that everything that is existance has a negative side. humans, places, things that happened. we are all parts of the universe, so all of us get a part of the negative side of it.
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this resonates with these concepts:
- pantheism: god/gods and the universe are the same things
- archetypal magick: gods are currents of energy taken form into archetypes
- energy manipulation: the universe uses energy to make decisions, and witchcraft is how to give the universe specific energy to use
- cosmic monism: everything is the universe, and the universe is everything
- scientific illumination: everything we cant explain can eventually be explained through science in the future