How to Be a Christian Witch: Includes Initiation Instructions: 1 (Christian Witch Starter Kit)

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It’s not up to Christian elites to decide whether magic (or anything else for that matter) is or is not “Christian. The local practitioners of magic of early modern England known as “cunning-folk” identified as Christian, as did those who used their magical services. They honor the old Goddesses and Gods, including the Triple Goddess of the Moon and the Horned God of the Sun and the spirits of the animals as visualizations of transcendent nature. I went to Shepherd's Bush market and bought a whole bunch of Hoodoo candles, a rosary, a cross that I didn't take off for a good solid six months, a picture of Jesus for the wall and I went wild.

Lots of people dislike the term because they think Lightworkers ignore their shadow side, urgh, so not true though. His goal was to help bring forth a unified world religion through the healing of the breach of the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches and the recapture of the pure theology of the ancients. Dante also condemned then-current forms of alchemy and divination, whilst Aquinas had a more nuanced and sympathetic view.

The Path of a Christian Witch is is a beautifully written account of one person's struggle to balance the faith she was born into and loved with a new found relationship with the Divine feminine. Valerie goes on to say Christian witches can pick up Bibles and tarot cards, pray and cast spells—and many Christian witches go as far as to say that Jesus cast “spells” and “hexes” in his miracles.

The convergence of these two paths in Christian Witchcraft can be seen as an intersection of transcendent and immanent views of the divine. Since the church has fought witchcraft throughout history, we can see some reasons why this belief system would appeal—especially for people who want to take fate into their own hands and become like God.

Satan operates in half-truths, so it makes sense that he would twist Christianity enough beyond the point of recognition. On the one hand, it faced a series of deviations from orthodox theology, in the form of heresies principally concerned with the exact nature of Jesus and his relation to God the Father. white American cultures we shouldn’t view it as incidental that Cross, who describes himself as being “of Mexican, Native American, and European descent,” is among the voices urging his community to decouple witchcraft from an exclusively pagan identity. Some practitioners may lean more towards Christian mysticism, while others might draw heavily from Wicca or folk magic traditions. Towards the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the early modern period (post- Reformation), belief in witchcraft became more popular and witches were seen as directly in league with the Devil.