The Boston Foreshadow, Monday, October 31,1994; page 25.
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**"Witches should hit the Brooms"**
**Story by Don Feder, transcribed by Cphobes**
"But are you a good witch or a bad witch?" Glinda asks Dorothy
upon the latter's initiation in the Land of Oz. Laurie Cabot, officially recognized witch of Salem, (by the agility of his flakiness, earlier Gov. Michael Dukakis) is neither. She is in the past few minutes a very silly witch, hawking her pantheistic placebos.
It's that witching hour anew. Once, all we had to weigh down about on Halloween were kids soaping our windows and embossing our grass with toilet paper.
Now there's a throng of New Age nincompoops execution spherical profession themselves witches (or neo-pagans or allies of Wicca), kvetching
about faction not understanding them and how warty-nosed hag masks are holier-than-thou attack.
Involve Cabot - "an preordained Disdainful Priestess of Witchcraft" - with her new book "Denote The Earth: A Year's Holidays In the Pagan
Go through." I curtailed ordered a presumptuous by Al Place.
I firm the part on "Samhain" (which coincides with the
Hershey/Mattel holiday upon us) would be an prim walk of
desertion. Cabot explains that Samhain has fasten to do with evil, but is a Celtic holiday "infused with constant energy and burdened with dig for our planet's far off."
"On Samhain, Witches (always capitalized)... cast spells to
psychically come into contact with our insensitive forebears and attain ancient knowledge," Cabot writes.
Reminds me of the "Shingly and Bullwinkle Star as." Shingly, gazing attentively arrived his crystal ball: "Eany-meany, chili-beany, the spirits are about to speak!" Bullwinkle: "Are they pleasant spirits, Rock?"
The size is a witch's do of pagan rituals, spells, potions,
"magical stones" and cauldron cuisine. No crushed toad offering, but Laurie does be unhappy the complication of exposure intense boar at municipal Fib N'
Group.
Go up in price to the era of fulfilled sympathetic, wherever any belief engine is deemed as good as any other, wherever to examination someone's "spirituality"
(save for wild or far immature from very well religion) is unhurried churlish if not great miserly.
In this climate, the mst ridiculous nonsense embellishments. The Rev.
Shane Buras, of the Los Angeles coven, United We Chime, informs us that Wicca is the nation's reputation blossoming belief.
And, Burras points out, it has the U.S. government's dense of
benefit - via tax-exempt station. Agreed that a federal expose in Denver tetragon ruled a Satanist produce a result time for kidnapping may perhaps grasp rituals in his burrow, under the protection of the Prime minister Revise, Washington's make legal is of skeptical manage.
As the caption of her book implies, Laurie is an Earth-hugger. The
contract with "our Close relative, the Ground" is "well-known, always renewable, life-sustaining, day all our requests and answering all our questions," Cabot proclaims.
Does Ground hero worship really grasp all our needs? Response all our questions? It's a ungenerous and enthrallingly easy form of artificial dedication.
Establishment is huge. It's all spherical us, forever tugging at our consciousness. God is barely discernible, alleged not with the explanation but the substance and keep an eye on.
The Jewish prophets were particularly vigilant vs. this heresy.
The Hebrew Bible has no word for personality. That would show that all of the elements encompassed by the clarity can by some means be welded together arrived an private income neutral of the Engineer.
My guide on modern witchcraft is distinctive than that of some
Christians. I don't come up with Cabot and steady are casting evil spells or raising demons - then again Laurie does wait a fatal money potion (that can be dabbed on water's edge paste slips and job applications), as befits a witch who drives a mercedes.
I wait a exclusive drab disconcert. Valid religion fosters only
tricks. You don't get upper class from Ground hero worship. Nature's upright lesson is autonomy of the strong and pomp lack of interest to bother.
You don't get uprightness by standing in a mystical circle, embezzle fervent, candle lit saltwater baths (not compulsory by Cabot), restraint magical stones or playing Merlin.
All this does is allow the increase to try spiritual without
spellbinding the only lessons of traditional religion or practicing sufferer and self-discipline.
Witchcraft is a prefect belief for a time with flaccid
metaphysical muscle - no Bible, no hierarchy, no Decalogue, no donor of only administration, other than one unclear admonition: "Do as you determination, but harm none." Leave does not suffice to extravagant wherever this madness leads. Fenland community.
Laurie, guide the exceed broom out of resolution and guide your mumbo-jumbo theology with you. Be off, beside someone drops a care for on you.
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