Liber ab Gens (Book of Tribe)^229

Liber ab Gens (Book of Tribe)....................................................................

(Book of Tribe)

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wanted to include information on the Wiccan community, but I should tell

you that this has been the hardest chapter to write. On one hand, I wanted

to praise the many tremendously beautiful folk I have met on my Path. I

wanted to share with my reader how beautiful what I found has been. On

the other hand, I wanted to just scream that there is no Wiccan community.

If I am to fail in accurately presenting my view of the Wiccan religion, this

chapter is going to be where I do just that. You see, more than anything else in the

Wiccan religion, it is our community that simply must be experienced to understand.

Unfortunately, that community is not something one can define. Fortunately, it is one

of those things that a person is absolutely sure of once one has found it. Your folk are

your folk. In a way, finding one’s tribe is akin to falling in love.

I believe that, like falling in love, community is one of the things that has allowed

the human race to continue for as long as it has. We do not run very fast, we don’t jump

very high, we have no natural camouflage, and when pitted against many of the other

creatures of this world, we don’t fair well. Our only real strength is that we are driven to

build community, to connect with like-minded folk for the betterment of both tribe

and individual.

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