As I mentioned in a previous blog post that there are tenets that exist that create the foundation of Wicca even if you are a Modern Eclectic Wiccan. There is a line, a boundary for everything, a point when something stops being one thing and transforms into something else. There are characteristics or traits that identify Wicca as Wicca. I will continue to discuss these characteristics or tenets in this blog. I have already discussed other tenets and today I will continue with the next one, which is:
- Honoring the body as manifestation of The All.
As Wiccans we possess the knowledge and understanding that within all that we experience in the physical realm of existence is an expression of the divine force or The All and it is because of this that there exists a polarity within each manifested being or form. Nothing exists in the physical realm without a counterpart for it is this unity that brings balance to our lives. Within a manifested human there is both feminine and masculine qualities, both shadow and light, fear and love, receptiveness and projectiveness … all these beautiful polarities are found within the representations of our Lady and Lord, which is the culmination of The All expressed in personalized terms so that our limited physical brains can comprehend the complexity of the nature of divinity.
Wiccans understand that human beings, as well as all other life forms, are creations of the divine force that expanded and expressed itself in physical form with the purpose to grow and understand itself from varying unique perspectives that could only be gained through physical manifestation. We are not only unified by these polarities, we ARE these polarities in separate unique creations. We ARE a part of the whole as well as BEING the whole itself. And it is precisely because of this understanding that we recognize that each of are, the complete sum of who we are as individual human beings, sacred. Our physical bodies are included in that sacredness regardless of how it appears; young or old, fat or thin, able bodied or paralyzed, diseased, healthy, bald, hairy, tall, short, female, male, transgendered, genderless … any combination of the already mentioned or countless combinations unnoted. All manifestations of the human form are manifestations of The All. And because of this are sacred.
Wiccans understand that human beings, as well as all other life forms, are creations of the divine force that expanded and expressed itself in physical form with the purpose to grow and understand itself from varying unique perspectives that could only be gained through physical manifestation. We are not only unified by these polarities, we ARE these polarities in separate unique creations. We ARE a part of the whole as well as BEING the whole itself. And it is precisely because of this understanding that we recognize that each of are, the complete sum of who we are as individual human beings, sacred. Our physical bodies are included in that sacredness regardless of how it appears; young or old, fat or thin, able bodied or paralyzed, diseased, healthy, bald, hairy, tall, short, female, male, transgendered, genderless … any combination of the already mentioned or countless combinations unnoted. All manifestations of the human form are manifestations of The All. And because of this are sacred.
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