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The Sacred Well Congregation was formally organized on Midsummer Day, 1994 in Hainin, Belgium. The purpose of the organization was to provide a legal infrastructure for a number of individuals and groups who have been working quietly and diligently for decades to foster a return to a deeper and more natural spirituality. Our vision is embodied in the Preamble to our Declaration of Intent and Practice:
"After years of formal and informal study and practice of comparative religions, we, the founders of the Sacred Well Congregation, concluded that mutually exclusive sectarianism practiced by established hierarchical religious groups and orders was detrimental to the human Spirit and irreverent to the Divine Reality that is both immanent and transcendent throughout the Universe. Since we hold and believe that it inheres within the Divine Soul of each human being to seek spiritual transformation and reunion with the Divine Reality, and since the existent sectarian faiths and practices fail to provide adequate means and moral guidance to those ends, it became incumbent upon us to form the Sacred Well Congregation during the One-thousand Nine-hundred and Ninety-fourth year of the Common Era."
The Sacred Well Congregation is organized into the Praefect Congregation, Local (Chartered) Congregations, and Provisional Congregations. The Praefect Congregation encompasses all Members of The Sacred Well, whether affiliated or not with a Local or Provisional Congregation. The Sacred Well Congregation has members in Belgium, the Netherlands, England, and the United States. The Congregation is truly a church without walls, and will conduct rites of worship wherever two or three of Her Members assemble, or wherever one of Her Members feel a calling to conduct a rite in solitude. Public rites are celebrated four times per year at various locations in Texas, and throughout Europe.
The Sacred Well Congregation is independent, non-sectarian and non-evangelical in theology and in fact. The Clergy (Kindred) of The Sacred Well Congregation are practitioners of Traditional Craft Wicca (TCW). Our Local (Chartered) Congregations are dedicated to the practice and teachings of the Rites and Mysteries of the TCW path. The Provisional Congregations generally practice in open circles and public rites. We realize that no one Path is the right path for every person, and that all roads lead to the River. Hence, we encourage the study and practice of all religious traditions, from Earth-based nature religions to Zen to Christianity. The Praefect Congregation, as a recognized Church and legal entity, will embrace all spiritual paths and traditions as Kith. The Praefect Congregation will sponsor and assist under Her Constitution any legitimate group or individual interested in serious religious study. All we ask from those seeking our assistance is a tolerance and respect for all religious traditions, and the encouragement to others seeking their own spiritual enlightenment along whatever path they are so led.
The principles on which The Sacred Well Congregation are founded are few and simple, and embodied in The Five Tenets. Membership in the General (Praefect) Congregation is unrestricted and free of charge. Excerpts from our By-Laws regarding membership requirements and funding restrictions are on linked pages. We are incorporated and chartered as a Church, and therefore contributions and offerings in support of our ministries are tax-deductable. We will gratefully accept offerings of money, material, and time in support of our activities and ministries. We will not, however, impose or require any fee or contribution as a requirement for membership in this Congregation.
If you would like to affiliate with the Praefect Congregation, please see the Tenets and the Membership Request form.
Aman Nai.
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