Paradigm
Notes made while reading “Children of Cain” by Michael Howard.
The Italian witches… are taught the pantheistic and Hermetic philosophy that the world is a living organism ‘where stars, planets, birds, plants, stones and humans interact with each other in the interplay of life within the march of time.’ Everything is believed to possess a soul and has a special spirit name. Once the witch discovers this name he or she had power over its owner. – Mario Pazzaglini
On Feri gods:
“there are also the lesser (Luciferic) deities who may be the ‘Lords of the Outer Spaces’. They are known as the Guardians and are also called the Cloud People, the Nephelim or the Watchers. Originally they ‘came from the stars’ and mated with primitive humans to create the hybrid race of the ‘faery blood’… Obviously they are same as the ‘fallen angels mentioned in Genesis who are said to have mated with the ‘daughters of men’.”
On the Sabbatic Craft:
A central motif in the Cultus Sabbati and the Sabbatic Craft in general is the spirit flight to the Witches Sabbath. From an esoteric viewpoint Chumbley described it as ‘an astral or dream convocation of the witches communing with a vast array of animal spirits, faeries and Otherworldly beings…
Andrew Chumbley described the location of the Witches’ Sabbath as ‘the crossroads of waking, sleeping and mundane dreaming’, a place that is literally “between the worlds’ as is the Compass or Circle of Arte. It is a place that can be accessed by the initiated practitioner in sleep, in dreams or trance. This concept of the witch meet, the faery convocation of humans and spirits, and the atavistic myth of the Wild Hunt forms the ritual and spiritual basis for the mythos, imagery, symbolism and practice of the Cultus Sabbati and the Sabbatic Craft tradition.