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18. What purpose does the censer serve? What quarter is it identified
with?
19. What does the Necklace symbolize? What materials can it be made
of?
What symbols are appropriate to be worked on it?
20. What happens when an altar is used for regular meditation and
magical practice?
21. Generally, which way does the altar face in most Craft rituals?
Why?
SPIRAL DANCE TEST CHAPTER 5
1. Explain the concept of Manifest Deity.
2. Why does the Goddess bear the titles Earth Goddess, Queen of
Heaven,
Star Goddess, Muse and Cosmic Lover? What do each of these titles
mean?
3. What are the three aspects of the Moon Goddess?
4. What Goddess of old do you personally associate with each of the
aspects in the previous question?
5. What does the pentad or five-fold star stand for?
6. What fruit contains a pentacle within itself? Where else has this
fruit played a part in contemporary religion?
7. Explain the concept of the Creatrix-Destoyer.
8. When are the tides of subtle power the strongest?
9. Is Witchcraft a belief system? If not, what is it?
10. What is the Law of the Goddess? Explain.
11. What is the Mystery? Explain.
12. What is the Goddess the symbol of for women? For men?
13. What happens when the Goddess is invoked? What function does the
invocation serve?
SPIRAL DANCE TEST CHAPTER 6
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1. Why is the image of the Horned God in the Craft radically different
from any other image of masculinity in our culture?
2. Make a chart of the aspects of the Horned God. On one side list
what
they mean in the Craft and on the other side, what they were
perverted into meaning by the medieval Church.
3. What positive male qualities would a man created in the Horned
God's
image be free to express, if he strove to emulate Him?
4. What relationship does the God bear to the Goddess?
5. What radically different role model does the God present for men in
todays society?
6. If the Witches God is the God of Love, what form(s) does this love
take? How does it compare to the non-Craft view of love in modern
society?
7. What are men in the Craft urged to do in order to meet their need
for nurturing? Speculate on the type of relationship a Craft couple
would have if the male is connected with his inner Muse and the
woman is connected with the Mother Goddess.
8. If the God is Eros and Logos, what develops when the bodily desire
for union and the emotional desire for connection is joined
together?
9. Explain the aspect of the God known as the Dying God. How does this
affect us psychologically?
10. Explain the concept of the Divine Hunter. Does a male in the
Craft,
or a female for that matter, need to become a hunter to experience
this aspect of the God? What other alternatives can you think of
that would allow you to connect with this aspect?
11. Contrast the celebrations of the Goddess with those of the God.
12. Explain each aspect of the God as you trace His progress around
the
Wheel of the Year.
13. It would seem, at first glance, that the Craft has more to offer
to
women than to men. What do men have to give up when they choose
the
Craft? Explain the new relationship to the female body required.
What are some of the more subtle and not easily comprehended
benefits offered to the men in the Craft?
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14. Explain the "Great Man" model of spirituality. How does it relate
to Witchcraft?
15. What happens when the cosmos is no longer modeled on external male
control as embodied in the "God the Father" concept of
Judaeo-Christianity?
16. What special benefits do men derive from being in the Craft and a
member of a Coven?
17. Which would be worse - a religion which elevates men to power at
the expense of women, or one that exalts women and refuses to
acknowledge the existence of men? Explain why.
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1. What is the "Craft" of witchcraft?
2. Define magic. How does Starhawk describe what it is like to perform
magic?
3. What physiological process takes place when one learns to work
magic?
4. What is the first requirement of magic? What does it accomplish?
5. How is the language of magic expressed? Why?
6. Define what a spell is, and what often gets mistaken for a spell?
7. What makes up a great body of magical lore? Why?
8. What combined faculties are required in casting spells?
9. Explain the concept of the magical will. How do you nurture it?
10. Why is it accurate to say spellcasting is a form of do it yourself
psycho-analysis?
11. There are two basic ways in which spells work. Explain each of
them
and the principles behind them.
12. Contrast the power of emotion and the directed energy of spell
casting. Explain the differences.
13. Why don't spells work all the time, every time?
14. Of all the planets, which celestial body influences the subtle
energies the most? Why?
15. Name the four basic guidelines of spell casting, and explain each
of them.
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16. What must be established before a spell that influences another
person can work? How does this effect you? What law governs this
act?
17. Explain the differences between, and the uses for, a hex and a
binding spell. Does the law of threefold return still hold true?
How might it effect the spell caster?
18. Might not a love spell directed against a specific person be
construed as coercion? How would a wise witch go about attracting
love into her/his life? What is the usual result of such spells?
Why?
19. Contrast the occurrence of an effective psychic attack with a
physical one. What state of mind is a far more pressing danger
that
psychic warfare?
20. What are some of the more subtle ways of attacking someone? What
can be done in defense? Is it ethical in the first place?
SPIRAL DANCE TEST CHAPTER 8
1. What is the primary principle of magic? How does it work?
2. Explain the statement, "To light a candle is to cast a shadow".
3. Is the equilibrium of the universe static, or dynamic? How do the
rituals, spells, and meditations of the craft aid this equilibrium?
4. What geometric shape does energy flow in and name some natural
phenomena that display this form.
5. What are the implications of the Spiral Model?
6. How may we learn to understand the workings of the underlying
physical reality of nature? Why would we want to?
7. What is the key principle to raising energy?
8. What demands must be met to practice magic as an art and as a
discipline?
9. In what form is raised energy most often molded into in coven
rituals? What forms the base? Name three things the apex can focus
on.
10. There is a conceptual model which conceives of subtle energy as
being of three basic types. Name each of these types of energy.
11. Explain what "elemental" energy is and its relationship to the
subtle bodies that surround and interpenetrate the physical body.
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