Progressive Witchcraft Quotes

“This [personification of deities] is also one of the reasons why the faceless concept of duotheism, which existed in early Wiccan practice, will ultimately fail to fulfill the needs of the new generation of Witches. It is human nature to anthropomorphize the world around us. When we paint and draw as children, we put smiley faces on flowers, the sun, and the moon. As we grow up, we give inanimate objects names and personalities—cars and boats for example. This is the inherited mode of psychic functioning at its most basic level. What Jung doesn’t cover is the result of this personification, the creation of supercharged thought-forms that we call gods and goddesses, which have developed personalities as real as our own.”
― Janet Farrar, Progressive Witchcraft: Spirituality, Mysteries, and Training in Modern Wicca

“When someone interested in Witchcraft comes to us, we have a simple test. We get them to close their eyes and, with their palms up, ask them to put their hands out in front of them. We then ask them if they wish to see some magic. How they react to what happens next is important. When they open their eyes, they discover that we have placed a simple houseplant in its pot on their outstretched hands. We look for the recognition in their eyes, that magic is not separate or supernatural, but is life itself.”
― Janet Farrar, Progressive Witchcraft: Spirituality, Mysteries, and Training in Modern Wicca

“This is one of the reasons we no longer use the terms high priest and high priestess to describe ourselves: we feel the terms encourage ego inflation. We still use the terms priest and priestess, but we use them as a job description rather than a statement of status.”
― Janet Farrar, Progressive Witchcraft: Spirituality, Mysteries, and Training in Modern Wicca