Charge of the Goddess Quotes

“Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices,
for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals.
Therefore, let there be beauty and strength,
power and compassion, honor and humility,
mirth and reverence within you.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“And you who seek to know me,
know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not,
unless you know the Mystery:
For if that which you seek,
you find not within yourself, you will never find it without.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery: that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“Save us, O Pan, and mostly from ourselves”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“Four times in the year the Great Sabbat
Returns, and the witches are seen
At Lammas and Candlemas dancing,
On May Eve and old Halloween.

When day-time and night-time are equal,
When Sun is at greatest and least,
The four lesser are summoned,
Again witches gather in feast.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“Doreen Valiente wrote the Charge Of The Goddess…Gerald Gardner's books of rites show the Charge developing in the 1940s and early 1950s from a pastiche of Crowley's writing to one of Charles Godfrey Leland and Crowley. What Doreen did was to keep the Leland, which she thought more authentic, put in a new framework, and write the “White Moon Charge”, which is wholly original in its words, although its basic form, of a universal nature goddess identified with the moon and addressing her devotees, is based on Apuleius's "Metamorphoses", from ancient Rome.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“With words we spin love,
With words we spin hate,
And twenty-six letters
Are weavers of fate.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess