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- The Witches Creed<BR>
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- Hear Now the words of the witches, <BR>
- The secrets we hid in the night, <BR>
- When dark was our destiny's pathway, <BR>
- That now we bring forth into light. <BR>
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- Mysterious water and fire, <BR>
- The earth and the wide-ranging air, <BR>
- By hidden quintessence we know them, <BR>
- And will and keep silent and dare. <BR>
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- The birth and rebirth of all nature, <BR>
- The passing of winter and spring, <BR>
- We share with the life universal, <BR>
- Rejoice in the magical ring. <BR>
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- Four times in the year the Great Sabbat <BR>
- Returns, and the witches are seen <BR>
- At Lammas and Candlemas dancing, <BR>
- On May Eve and old Hallowe'en. <BR>
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- When day-time and night-time are equal, <BR>
- When sun is at greatest and least, <BR>
- The four Lesser Sabbats are summoned, <BR>
- And Witches gather in feast. <BR>
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- Thirteen silver moons in a year are, <BR>
- Thirteen is the coven's array. <BR>
- Thirteen times at Esbat make merry, <BR>
- For each golden year and a day. <BR>
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- The power that was passed down the age, <BR>
- Each time between woman and man, <BR>
- Each century unto the other, <BR>
- Ere time and the ages began. <BR>
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- When drawn is the magical circle, <BR>
- By sword or athame of power, <BR>
- Its compass between two worlds lies, <BR>
- In land of the shades for that hour. <BR>
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- This world has no right then to know it, <BR>
- And world of beyond will tell naught. <BR>
- The oldest of Gods are invoked there, <BR>
- The Great Work of magic is wrought. <BR>
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- For the two are mystical pillars, <BR>
- That stand at the gate of the shrine, <BR>
- And two are the powers of nature, <BR>
- The forms and the forces divine. <BR>
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- The dark and the light in succession, <BR>
- The opposites each unto each, <BR>
- Shown forth as a God and a Goddess: <BR>
- Of this our ancestors teach. <BR>
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- By night he's the wild wind's rider, <BR>
- The Horn'd One, the Lord of the Shades. <BR>
- By day he's the King of the Woodland, <BR>
- The dweller in green forest glades. <BR>
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- She is youthful or old as she pleases, <BR>
- She sails the torn clouds in her barque, <BR>
- The bright silver lady of midnight, <BR>
- The crone who weaves spells in the dark. <BR>
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- The master and mistress of magic, <BR>
- That dwell in the deeps of the mind, <BR>
- Immortal and ever-renewing, <BR>
- With power to free or to bind. <BR>
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- So drink the good wine to the Old Gods, <BR>
- And Dance and make love in their praise, <BR>
- Till Elphame's fair land shall receive us <BR>
- In peace at the end of our days. <BR>
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- And Do What You Will be the challenge, <BR>
- So be it Love that harms none, <BR>
- For this is the only commandment. <BR>
- By Magic of old, be it done! <BR>
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- Doreen Valiente, <BR>
- "Witchcraft For Tomorrow" <BR>
- pp.172-173 <BR>
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