This page is to provide to those who are interested, a detailed explanation of my religious and spiritual beliefs. My beliefs are the result of my personal curiosity and are an amalgamation of beliefs from various cultural and religious groups. I encourage anyone to post links directly to this page from any other site or forum thread that discusses religion, magick, spirituality, or any similar topic. Mailto links will be provided at the bottom of the page if you wish to contact me either on a personal or professional basis to discuss the content of the page in a CIVILIZED fashion. I respect your beliefs, please respect mine, after all you clicked the link to come here.

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My Core Beliefs

Detailed Beliefs

It is my belief that God created the universe and all things in it, including all that is living and not living. When God did this, It set forth certain guidelines and limitations to define the existence of the universe. All creation resides within God and the power of God exists in all that God created. God set forth existence and guided the evolution of life within the universe to create Humanity in its own image. Since Humanity is created in the image of God, and the power of God exists in all that God has created, it is possible for Man to wield the power of Creation, and even thru guided evolution to become like God.

Over the ages in the history of man, God has chosen many prophets and used countless Avatars to try to guide humanity. Basically, every positive Deity is just another aspect of God. I accept the possibility that there are other gods that have tried to steer us away from “the one true God”. I feel that the religions of the world need to let each other alone because in some way or another they are all right. All of Gods creations are of equal value and importance, except for humanity. The importance of a Human life is measured by its contribution to existence. Those that take without giving are a waste of life. Those that give enough to account for what they take are worthy. And Those who give all they can and take only what they need are exceptional, for this is the way God wants us to live.
The children of humanity are innocent and pure, they should not be spoiled, or overly disciplined, their lives have the potential to exceed ours, they are the future of God's people and should be protected at any cost. Parents should be responsible for their children, it is not the governments job to raise and educate them.

It is Mans responsibility to support the World and the other life God has created on it, just as it supports us. For every life a person takes to account for its own survival, another of the same type must be given life as replacement. Plant for Plant, livestock for livestock, for no one is more important the the other, yet they are not equal.

I believe that everything has a soul, that all life is important until it proves itself not to be, only man has the ability to do that.
I believe that the only sin that exists is refusing salvation, for sin is the defiance of God's will and this is the only way one can do so.

Where it comes from

My beliefs come from a combination of Christian, Norse, Egyptian, Islamic, Native American, Druidic, and Hindu beliefs.
Below are a listing of what I have taken from the above listed religions.

Christianity: The belief that God exists in 3 representations:
1. God the Father, Creator of the Universe.
2. God the Son, Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of Sins.
3. God the Holy Spirit, Sustainer of the belief, That descended on the apostles granting them the gift of tongues.

Islam: The belief that God's rule is absolute. To quote a passage from an English translation of the Qur'an (I have to specify this because according to Islamic belief, the Qur'an translated into any language other than Arabic is no longer the Qur'an. In my opinion this is just a control mechanism much like the old catholic church and insisting that the Bible only be printed in Latin.) “Nothing can exist outside of the will of God.”
This combined with a definition of sin that states that sin is the direct wilful defiance of God's Will, leads me to believe that from a spiritual standpoint you cannot defy the will of God for everything that exists is so because that is how God wills it to be. Thru free will the only way to defy God is to refuse salvation, and choose not to go to “heaven” upon death.

Norse: a polytheistic people who believed in the glory of honorable combat. I believe many of the positive Deities depicted in Norse religious structure to be representation of “the one true God.” Mostly I like the way the Norse disposed of their dead, either by burial at sea or more commonly by funeral pyre where the person was burned along with all of their most personal possessions.

Egyptian: In my studies, I have noticed some striking similarities between that of Horus, and the Christian God.

Hindu: The existence of Avatars, reincarnation.
I believe in reincarnation, that our souls migrate between higher and lower forms of life with Human being near the top and that anyone who lives a good life, upon death will be offered Salvation, the chance to ascend to a way of life higher than Humanity, commonly known as heaven. This means that from a literal sense, there is no hell, those that would “go to hell” are simply downgraded to a lower form of existence.
Avatars, physical manifestations of God, Avatars are born like normal creatures, and can die. The serve as a vessel so that the divine can exist on the same plane as the mundane.

Native American: This is true of many tribal cultures, but they believe that you don't own the land, but that you are meant to serve it. If you serve the land it will serve you in return. The belief that everything has a spirit, a touch of the great spirit (God), and that upon death all spirits return to the Great Spirit before returning to the earth again. This is also similar to “Gaia Theory” and in many ways reincarnation. There are a lot of similarities here with the Druids as well. I am still studying shamanistic ritual but it goes slow as it is Illegal for me to use many of the Hallucinogens needed for those rituals.

Druid: The key thing to remember about the Druids is that they themselves were not a culture but a class or sect. The Druids were a type of priest. A priest of nature. Druids believed themselves to be the keepers of the balance, and most if not all of their rituals revolve around that. Leaders of tribes and many land owners turned to the Druids for advice on many aspects and for protection from the elements in what ever they would do. Druid practices are important to me because it is as much a lifestyle as it is a spiritual/religion path. Druids are as much dealers of death as they are keepers of life. Druids assisted the natural life cycle by felling diseased trees burning overgrown forests, slaughtering sickly animals, etc. My study of Druidism is being slowed by my state government as much like shamanistic rites, Druidic rites also use hallucinogens to modify consciousness to better understand the nonhuman realm, and every time I find a safe hallucinogen a bill is passed into law making it Illegal, or it turns out to have been. The key difference between Druid and Shamanistic hallucinogen use is most shamanistic rites require a specific drug where as Druid rites allow for any naturally occurring substance to be used.





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