Are there religions that believe the Earth is our Creator but do not believe in the use of Magick?

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Answer 1

Wicca, not all wiccans practice magick. Wicca is a religion and magick is a part of it but just because it is does not mean you have to do it. In case you dont know what wicca is...

The Wiccan religion was created in the 50s by Gerald Gardner and is largely based on solomonic ceremonial magick. He and some other occultists got together and brought back what they believed to be ‘brushed under the carpet’ for centuries, Wicca They believed that they were making it known once again. Gerald was the first to create the first branch of wicca, he called it “wica” derived from the old English word meaning “wise one” Gardnerians commonly refer to themselves as “The Wicca/Wica” There is some propaganda going around that “wicca” came from the word meaning “to bend” that wiccan is a twisting of reality. I do not believe this.

We wiccans believe that everything is related and intertwined with each other. We worship a deity of both a God and Goddess we believe that they are so universally related to everyone that they are too big to fit into just one religion, we believe that everyone is correct in their beliefs, as long as it is for good. We believe that the God and Goddess are just two different aspects of a greater being; some choose to believe that they can take form of any thing. Some believe that they are just different forces acting in different ways to help and teach. Some believe that there are many God/desses; others believe in the god and goddess, all of the other god and goddesses are just aspects. Wiccans usually don’t believe that the God and Goddess are apart from us so we usually don’t have a concept of being saved; we believe that the God and Goddess are in us all.

We believe that everything happens for a reason, we believe in the rule of three (karma) that whatever we send out returns to us three fold whether it be good or bad. It means what you put out is what you get back times three.So if you put out negative energy - it would come back to you three times as bad.If you put out positive energy - it would come back to you three times as good. We understand that sometimes it may comeback when ever we least expect it or it may come back to when we do. We know that it will in some way, when you are good to others it will be repaid to you.

Wiccans do not usually have a church; we create our own sacred space commonly called a circle. We believe that this keeps our own energy in and also keeps unwelcome energy out. This very convenient to us, we can cast it anywhere at anytime, day or night.

We celebrate the Wheel of The Year:

Yule, (Dec.21)
Imbolic falls on Feb. 2.
Ostara, the Spring Equinox (when the day and night are equal, usually around March 21),
Beltane (May 1)
Litha, the Summer Solstice (around June 21)
Lughnasad (Aug. 1) Also spelled Lughnassad and referred to as Lammas.
Mabon, the Fall Equinox (around Sept. 21)
Samhain(Sow-win, Oct. 31), Witches' New Year

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Not trying to preach to you or convert you, it is your own free will.

Good luck on your religious path.

Answer 2

I don't know about Wiccan, but buddhist believes human were descend onto earth when the condition was right. Humans does not look like what we looked like a few millions of years ago, and a few millions years later, we will look different from what we are now.

Hence buddhist does not believe in a creator god :P.

Answer 3

Well, in some pagan circles, there is a small minority whom believes magic changes the natural course of things, but still holds belief in deities like the earth mother. I have seen this(just a couple times) in Wiccan circles, but not nearly so often as the norm(magic is dandy)

Answer 4

The earth could not have created life without a huge outside source of energy.

I call that the "Sun", but yeah, I suppose that is the naturalist point of view. The Earth created life following the rules of the universe.

These rules may not be changed or altered by anything no matter how tightly you clasp your hands.

Answer 5

Sure. Not all forms of paganism subscribe to the idea of magic. Paganism is a very personal, maleable religion that does not require to believe in...anything you don't believe in.

Answer 6

--The idea of mother nature(worship of the earth) comes from the worship of Gaia, who was a sex goddess, and that many women relate to in our world with the "goddess principle"

Gaia (pronounced /'geɪ.ə/ or /'gaɪ.ə/) ("land" or "earth", from the Greek Γαῖα; also Gaea or Ge (Greek Γῆ) is a Greek goddess personifying the Earth.

Hesiod's Theogony (116ff) tells how, after Chaos, arose broad-breasted Gaia the everlasting foundation of the gods of Olympus. She brought forth Uranus, the starry sky, her equal, to cover her, the hills, and the fruitless deep of the Sea, Pontus, "without sweet union of love," out of her own self. But afterwards, Hesiod tells, she lay with Uranus and bore the World-Ocean Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and the Titans Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and Phoebe of the golden crown and lovely Tethys. "After them was born Cronus the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire."

Hesiod mentions Gaia's further offspring conceived with Uranus, first the giant one-eyed Cyclopes: Brontes ("thunderer"), Steropes ("lightning") and the "bright" Arges: "Strength and might and craft were in their works." Then he adds the three terrible hundred-handed sons of Earth and Heaven, the Hecatonchires: Cottus, Briareos and Gyges, each with fifty heads.

Uranus hid the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes in Tartarus so that they would not see the light, rejoicing in this evil doing. This caused pain to Gaia (Tartarus was her bowels) so she created grey flint (or adamantine) and shaped a great flint sickle, gathering together Cronos and his brothers to ask them to obey her. Only Cronos, the youngest, had the daring to take the flint sickle she made, and castrate his father as he approached Gaia to have intercourse with her. And from the drops of blood and semen, Gaia brought forth still more progeny, the strong Erinyes and the armoured Gigantes and the ash-tree Nymphs called the Meliae. From the testicles of Uranus in the sea came forth Aphrodite. For this, a Greek etymologist urged, Uranus called his sons "Titans," meaning "strainers" for they strained and did presumptuously a fearful deed, for which vengeance would come afterwards; for, as Uranus had been deposed by his son Cronos, so was Cronos destined to be overthrown by Zeus, the son born to him by his sister-wife Rhea. In the meantime, the Titans released the Cyclopes from Tartarus, and Cronos was awarded the kingship among them, beginning a Golden Age.

After Uranus' castration, Gaia gave birth to Echidna and Typhon by Tartarus. By Pontus, Gaia birthed the sea-deities Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto and Eurybia.

Zeus hid Elara, one of his lovers, from Hera by hiding her under the earth. His son by Elara, the giant Tityas, is therefore sometimes said to be a son of Gaia, the earth goddess, and Elara.

Gaia also made Aristaeus immortal.

Gaia is believed by some sources (Joseph Fontenrose 1959 and others) to be the original deity behind the Oracle at Delphi. She passed her powers on to, depending on the source, Poseidon, Apollo or Themis. Apollo is the best-known as the oracle power behind Delphi, long established by the time of Homer, having killed Gaia's child Python there and usurped the chthonic power. Hera punished Apollo for this by sending him to King Admetus as a shepherd for nine years.

Oaths sworn in the name of Gaia, in ancient Greece, were considered the most binding of all.

In classical art Gaia was represented in one of two ways. In Athenian vase painting she was shown as a matronly woman only half risen from the earth, often in the act of handing the baby Erichthonius (a future king of Athens) to Athena to foster. Later in mosaic representations she appears as a woman reclining upon the earth surrounded by a host of Carpi, infant gods of the fruits of the earth.

Answer 7

Is there anyone else that believes that the asker of this question is mentally deranged?

Answer 8

magic is a trick of made believe..