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Tannim's Religion 
Principals of Magik
ENERGY
The primary principal of magik is connection. The universe is a fluid, ever-changing energy pattern, not a collection of fixed or separate things. What effects one thing affects, in some way, all things: All is interwoven into the continuous fabric of being. Its warp and weft are energy, which is the essence of magik.
Energy is ecstasy. When we drop the barriers and let power pour through, it floods the body, pulsing through every nerve, arousing every artery, coursing like a river that cleanses as it moves. In the eye of the storm, we rise on the winds that roar through mind and body, throbbing a liquid note as the voice pours out shimmering honey in waves of golden light, that as they pass, leave peace. No drug can take us so high; no thrill pierces us so deep because we have felt the essence of all delight, the heart of joy, the end of desire. Energy is love, and love is magik.
Of all the disciplines of magik, the art of moving energy is the simplest and most natural. It comes as easily as breathing, as making sound. Picture power in motion, and it moves. Feel it flowing, and it flows, cleansing, healing, renewing, and revitalizing as it passes.
The laws of ecology are the laws energy. Everything is interconnected; every action, every movement of forces, changes the universe. “You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good or evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in equilibrium. A Wizard's power of changing and summoning can shake the very balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
Yet the equilibrium of the universe is not static, but dynamic. Energy is constantly in motion. It cannot be stopped. Again, using water as our metaphor, when we block its flow it become stagnant and foul. When it flows freely, it cleanses and purifies. The rituals, spells, and meditations of the craft center on aiding the energy flow.
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HONOR
Honor is a guiding principal in the craft. An act that harms anyone harms us all. This is not a need to take offense at imagined slights against ones virility - it is an inner sense of pride and self respect. The Goddess is honored in oneself, and in others. Women, who embody the Goddess, are respected, not placed on pedestals or etherealized but valued for all their human qualities. The self, one's individuality and unique way of being in the world, is highly valued. The Goddess, like nature, loves diversity. Oneness is attained not through losing the self, but through realizing it fully. “Honor the Goddess in yourself, celebrate your self, and you will see that Self is Everywhere!”
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MISUSE OF SEXUALITY
Misuse of sexuality, is heinous. Rape, for example, is an intolerable crime because it dishonors the life force by turning sexuality to the expression of rage, violence, and hostility instead of toward love. I recently heard in the news, that 4 girls were violently raped in Los Angeles near a popular school (USC) The attacker, in his early twenties brutally raped all four girls at gun point (16, 15, 10, & 9) year old girls. My thoughts on this rape? I think that when they find him they should cut his ding-a-ling half way off, leave him in total pain for months letting his wound wither and stagnate then slowly kill him. Rape is wrong, something I am absolutely positive that Cernnunos, the Lord of Death would not abide, and I can't wait until this individual finally meets the Lord of Death at the gates to the land of the dead.
A woman has the sacred right to control her own body, as does a man. No one has the right to force or coerce another human being.
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