Diety and Divinity


Divinity & Diety




In order to truely understand the craft you must first accept that there is a power greater then yourself. When someone first enters the craft they may believe that they are soley capable of bending the universe to their will. This, however is not the case. Wicca and The Craft are about moving in rythem with nature and Divinity. Divinity, commonly called a "higher power" is what connects everything with everything else. Many people may refer to Divinity as "The All" or "The Divine". Every tradition may call it something else, but for simplicity's sake we'll just call it The All.

Now, one thing you do have to understand is that everyone views The All in different ways. Divinity is much like a crystal or a diamond in that it has many different facets which one can look through to view it. Depending on which direction you are looking at The All (Divinity) from, you may view it completely different as your friend in the same coven in the same tradition. There is no right and wrong as far as how someone will choose to relate to it. The God and Goddess is how I relate to it, as a practicing Wiccan. Now again, not all Wiccans will view The All in this manner either.

The All is just what the name describes. It is everything in our reality, and every reality, in everytime. It is Everything! It is every plane of exsistance, every spark of energy on every level. Most people in the craft have a very hard time relating to The All, being that it is so massive and unlike ourselves. And as such most people divide The All into an aspect, typically more than one aspect, in in an to create balance, these aspects are referred to as Dieties. Some systems split the All into many different aspects, such as the Greek pantheon. In most cases The All is split into two beings, both as much of The All as the other just different aspects of it, as it is in Wicca. These aspects are the passive and the active; the feminine and the masculine; the Sun and the Moon; and the material and the spiritual. Yes, we are speaking about the Lord and Lady (or God and Goddess).

Picture Courtesy of Julie Huntsinger


The God and Goddess represent two halves of the same whole. In order to really understand them as individual peices of the same whole, you have to look at the two forms independately and seperate from each other.



The God


The Goddess

Picture Courtesy of Julie Huntsinger

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