(^270) A Wiccan Bible

Liber ab Clementia (Book of Humanity)....................................................

(Book of Humanity)

The Third Order of Life

Study Material for the Third Degree

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f all the material presented herein, the title of this chapter is bound to be the

most controversial. If we are discussing God and Goddess forms, why would

I call this the Book of Humanity? Because it reflects the secret found in the

three orders of life. You see, whatever you call our Lord and Lady, they are

the sum total of all that lives. They are in essence, Life itself. Thus this

book, the Book of Humanity, is the book of viewing our Lord and Lady alive

in all humanity.

Ultimately, though we might be seen as worshipping our Lord and Lady by outsid-

ers, the educated Wiccan knows that what is really being celebrated is Life and its

splendor of diversity. This is why the Wiccan respects all order of plants, all order of

animals, and all order of humanity. Black, red, white, yellow, or any variation between,

in their many forms our Lord and Lady are us in our many forms. Like us, they started

in Africa and circled the world to return and once again be united in the love in which

they started, separated for the sake of union.

Here we find the Wiccan greetings: Thou art Goddess and Thou art God. Where

we look to plants and animals as the creation of our Lord and Lady, here we have

become God and Goddess in giving form to our Lord and Lady. No, we did not create

them. But we have surely assigned them the many names and many forms by which we

now recognize them.

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