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Witch School Third Degree: Lessons in the Correllian Tradition
The three-volume Witch School teaching series will prepare you for initiation into all three degrees of Correllian Wicca, one of the largest and fastest growing Wiccan traditions in the world. As an additional bonus, WitchSchool.com offers many optional interactive features to enhance your textbook learning experience. The Path of the High Priest and Priestess The twelve lessons of the Witch School's Third Degree are for those who choose to follow the path of Wiccan High Priest or High Priestess. More so than the earlier degrees, the Third Degree is a vocation—a call to lead, inspire, and instruct others on the Wiccan journey. You'll be ready to assume the essential duties of Wiccan clergy—teaching, transformative energy work, and oracular work—when you successfully complete the lessons of the Third
Clergy Standards and Behavior • Public Ritual
Astral Travel and Shapeshifting • Remote Viewing
The Nature of the Soul • The Nature of Time • The Ennead
Karma, Akasha, and Past Lives • Drawing Down the Moon
Conscious Incarnation • Temple Management • The Future Completion of the twelve lessons in this book makes you eligible for initiation into the Third Degree of Correllian Nativist Wicca and the role of High Priest or High Priestess.
Clergy Standards and Behavior • Public Ritual
Astral Travel and Shapeshifting • Remote Viewing
The Nature of the Soul • The Nature of Time • The Ennead
Karma, Akasha, and Past Lives • Drawing Down the Moon
Conscious Incarnation • Temple Management • The Future Completion of the twelve lessons in this book makes you eligible for initiation into the Third Degree of Correllian Nativist Wicca and the role of High Priest or High Priestess.
336 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2008
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October 20, 2009
This series has to be the most improvable course on Wicca anyone's ever come up with. Expanding your basic "Wicca 101" material into three volumes gives this just about the right scope; individuals will want to enhance their knowledge in particular subjects, but the material covered in these three books encompasses all anyone needs for a general grasp on the modern Wicca.
Going in, it's important to realize that the series comes from a particular religion, Correllian Wicca. That point of view colors everything. But the author is totally up-front about it, so I didn't object. It's only honest to take on the subject according to one's own world view, as long as that world view is acknowledged. It's up to the reader to adapt it to his or her own perspective.
The third volume is better than the first, and much better than the second. Book One had more of a textbook quality, Book Two more in the way of eye-glazing details. Book Three goes much deeper into metaphysics than any other Wicca book I've encountered, in a way that leads the student towards further study and experimentation. In any general book, that's the point.
But boy, could this ever be improved. It would benefit from more of an attempt to tie it into the larger world: more sources, more suggestions for further reading, more up-front discussion of differences of opinion -- especially within the tradition. For example, does the tradition as a whole really agree that punctuated equilibrium (which Highcorrell calls "punctuated evolution") explains human origins better than Darwinian evolution? I doubt you could get a roomful of reasonably educated pagans to go for that one (though I could be wrong).
Nor would you get the roomful to agree to Highcorrell's notion of Wicca as a viable world religion. The institutionalism he advocates is bound to make most pagans cringe. Still, taking a positive attitude, and acting as if we have nothing to lose by putting our best face forward -- these are welcome steps in the evolution of pagan thought.
I finished the book, but I'm not going out and buying my robe any time soon.
Going in, it's important to realize that the series comes from a particular religion, Correllian Wicca. That point of view colors everything. But the author is totally up-front about it, so I didn't object. It's only honest to take on the subject according to one's own world view, as long as that world view is acknowledged. It's up to the reader to adapt it to his or her own perspective.
The third volume is better than the first, and much better than the second. Book One had more of a textbook quality, Book Two more in the way of eye-glazing details. Book Three goes much deeper into metaphysics than any other Wicca book I've encountered, in a way that leads the student towards further study and experimentation. In any general book, that's the point.
But boy, could this ever be improved. It would benefit from more of an attempt to tie it into the larger world: more sources, more suggestions for further reading, more up-front discussion of differences of opinion -- especially within the tradition. For example, does the tradition as a whole really agree that punctuated equilibrium (which Highcorrell calls "punctuated evolution") explains human origins better than Darwinian evolution? I doubt you could get a roomful of reasonably educated pagans to go for that one (though I could be wrong).
Nor would you get the roomful to agree to Highcorrell's notion of Wicca as a viable world religion. The institutionalism he advocates is bound to make most pagans cringe. Still, taking a positive attitude, and acting as if we have nothing to lose by putting our best face forward -- these are welcome steps in the evolution of pagan thought.
I finished the book, but I'm not going out and buying my robe any time soon.
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August 29, 2013These books are written from the direct teachings of the Correllian Tradition. As a former student (current clergy member), I read the original material many years ago and found it to be a great introduction to Wicca and the Correllian Tradition itself. I highly recommend this book for those interested in this tradition.
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