The History of Witchcraft in 7 Steps – Part 1 from Goth Style Secrets
Lady Eureka will bring you the “The History of Witchcraft in 7 Steps”, which I wrote two centuries ago (1867). You will learn the ancient secrets why the number 7 is a most magical number and how it applies in our modern world. These secrets have been suppressed over the centuries for the secret elite to maintain their powers since the dawn of humankind. But today, you too will start to learn about this hidden knowledge, long forbidden since the Garden of Eden…
Past Reflection
This is where I show you exactly how witchcraft, sorcery and magic find its roots and even later on through the ages leads to people being either burned, drowned, or hung. These people who were thought to be witches but were not witches, but Protestants within the Christian church. These were the same ones that were protesting the Catholic Church.
As I am trying to put this all together, I hope to bring about an understanding that Witchcraft, like any religion, has undergone its changes throughout the centuries. It is my personal feeling that the religion of Witchcraft has undergone far fewer changes than any other in history.
The secrets of witchcraft, sorcery, magic, finds its roots as far back as Mesopotamia. With their dieties for all types of disasters, such as Utug – the Dweller of the Desert waiting to take you away if you wandered to far, and Telal – the Bull Demon, Alal – the destroyer, Namtar – Pestilence, Idpa – fever, and Maskim – the snare setter; the days of superstition were well underway.
It was believed that the pharaohs and kings, all imbued some power of the gods, and even the slightest movement they made would cause an action to occur. It was believed that a picture or statue also carried the spirit of the person. This is one of the reasons that they were carried from place to place, and also explains why you see so many pictures and statues of these persons with their hands straight to their sides.
In the Bible, we find reference to ‘The Tower of Babel” or The Ziggurat in Genesis 11. ‘Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar (Babylonia) and settled there. They said to each other, ..Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.’ They used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar. Then they said, ..Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.’ But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” It goes on to say that the tower was never finished…
In other references, we find that the “Tower” was in fact finished, and that it was a tower that represented the “stages’ between earth and heaven (not a tower stretching to the heaven in the literal sense.) From this reference, it was a tower built in 7 steps. It was a hierarchy on which heaven and hell were based upon. It was actually a miniature world representing the Mountain of Earth.
Each of the mysterious 7 steps was dedicated to a planet, with its angles symbolizing the four corners of the world. They pointed to Akkad, Saburtu, Elam, and the western lands. The 7 steps of the tower were painted in different corresponding colors, which corresponded to the planets. The ‘Great Misfortune, Saturn, was black. The second was white for the color of Jupiter. The third, brick-red for the color of Mercury, followed by blue for Venus; yellow for Mars, gray or silver for the moon. These colors boded good or evil, like their planets.
For the first time, numbers expressed the world order. A legend depicts Pythagoras traveling to Babylon where he is taught the mystery of numbers, their magical significance and power. The secrets of the 7 steps often appear in magical philosophy. The 7 steps are: stones, fire, plants, animals, man, the starry heavens, and the angels. Starting with the study of stones, the man of wisdom will attain higher and higher degrees of knowledge, until he will be able to apprehend the sublime, and the eternal. Through ascending these steps, a man would attain the knowledge of God, whose name is at the eighth degree, the threshold of God’s heavenly dwelling. In our modern times, we find the 7 steps as the 7 energy centres represented in the human body…and the eighth degree is called universal consciousness – widely described in “new age” philosophy.
The square was also a ‘mystical’ symbol in these times, and though divided into 7, was still respected. This correlated the old tradition of a fourfold world being reconciled with the 7 heavens of later times.
It is thought that here was the start to numerology, but for this to have developed to the point where they had taken into consideration the square as the fourfold world, it would have had to have developed prior to this. From Mesopotamia let’s move over to Persia…
Stay tuned for the next mystical issue of “The History of Witchcraft in 7 Steps – Part 2”, a knowledge so powerful that lead the Catholic church had suppressed it for over the centuries, beginning with the “holy war”. You will learn about the Chaldean star religion that taught that luck and disaster were not chance events, but they were controlled from heavenly bodies. You will also discover how the star Sirius would carry messages to the higher gods. And I will also share insights with you about the belief in the “holy war’!
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