It is immanent in all things, but it is also distant and beyond our grasp. It is too vast for us to comprehend in its entirety, but we can begin to experience it through our relationship with the gods, who are facets of the divine. As I mentioned briefly in chapter 2, the two main aspects of deity that Wiccans work with are simply called the Goddess and the God. They are the female and male “halves” of the divine. In Wiccan thought, the union of the Goddess and God creates the universe. The relationship between the Goddess and God is symbiotic. Like darkness and light, each half needs the other to express itself fully. The God represents, among other things, power unmanifest; the spark of life. The Goddess gives this power form. So are the gods real, sentient, independent entities? Are they masks that humans put on deity to understand it better, as Joseph Campbell suggests? Are they archetypes—symbols for universal themes that tend to pop up in the same way across cultures?
What do You think about Wicca For Beginners (2006)?
