I am intimate with the Divine…

I commune with immediate and ignited consciousness with the Sacred…

I am alive in the Being and Body of God Herself and I am my own promise to Eternity…

Recently I facilitated a discussion and experiential sitting on Divinity and Theology with a WildWood Witch who is undertaking her priestess training currently. In this session I usually contextualise the dialogue by deepening into the ‘evolution of one’s own personal relationship with and understanding of the Divine’ and bringing that to the forefront of expression. At one point in my own philosophising I began to speak on the Erotic and how Desire is the prime creative principle of the Active Agency of our Living, Limitless Cosmos; that I, as a Witch, am a mystic (initiate) of the Secret Intimacy of God Herself. I mentioned how, upon a superficial glance, this might make Witchcraft and elements of Pagan theology and cosmology completely inverse to Eastern philosophies like Buddhism.

Often in the West we hear that the teachings of the Buddha alert us to the spiritual truth that the root of all suffering is desire. Let us articulate this to a finer kernel of truth – the root of all suffering is the attachment to the outcome of desire. Late last year Brighid, in possession of a WildWood aspirant at the culmination of her training, communicated to me that ‘the problem with this world’ is that humans are too focussed on ‘the end’; that we are infatuated with reaching a/the goal and, in competition with each other, triumphing and attaining to personal glory in contrast. I can definitely see how this wisdom is completely applicable to the state of the human condition on this planet right now.

In the well-known Wiccan ‘Charge of the Goddess’ (which I happen to love) the line, “for I am that which is attained at the end of Desire” completes the entire piece. In falling in love with the personal promise of surrendering to the flow of the Divine Will and becoming an Active Agent of Creative Change we enter into the Weaving consciously and thus we partake of the Desire of the Communion of the Holy Feast, in which we lose focus on dualities and dichotomies and find Ecstasy – the Ecstasy of the Goddess.

We transcend the limit and dissolve into the immanence of limitlessness. We are found in our Origins and sing star-song through an orgy of flesh and spirit; all is in Spiral and the pointedness of this reverence is initiated into the point that become the no-point and we have cast the Circle, opened the Crossroads and traced the boundaries of the Boundless. We have penetrated the Mystery!

This almost too-broad mystic/initiatory immersion is nonetheless distinctly and sensually apparent to us. We are embodied beings endowed with senses which encourage us to celebrate the Life-Force as diversely manifest before us and inside of us. We partake of the Experience of the Expression and have ‘died’ to the Illusion which keeps us cleanly separate and in some kind of mechanistic categorisation which organises each potential relationship. In fact, ‘relationship’ itself becomes irrelevant because we can no longer encounter the Mystery in each thing; we have lost the ability to be in awe of the Mysterious, to be filled with wonder, to be present inside of the blossoming consciousness which would have us meet the Hidden Potencies and strike the Spark of the Divine.

A Prayer of Commitment to Erotic Relationship with the Divine

“I am seated in the Heart of My Own Holy Self and my Divine Image is present to my Reflection.

I am God Herself, Grandmother Weaver, making love to the Real and Present.

I am the Play of the Mystery, I am the Flirtatious God courting the Desirous One.

I give myself to the Communion of the Holy Feast, to the Orgy of Flesh and Spirit,

And I am filled with the Lust of Love which yearns for itself continuously!

I am Awe-Inspired and Wonder-Full!

May the God In Me speak to the Eros in God and may we dance together in Endless Revolution!”

~ When I asked my friend to consider herself as somehow removed from complete anchoring in Pagan identity and to reflect on the question – “How would you feel if I said, as a Pagan, as a Witch, I have an erotic relationship with God?” - she readily replied, “Jealous!” ~