The Creed
The Creed
Hear now the words of the Witches,
the secrets we hid in the night,
when dark was our destiny's pathway,
that now we bring forth into the light.
Mysterious Water and Fire,
the Earth and the wide ranging Air,
by hidden quintessence we know them,
and will keep silent and dare.
The birth and rebirth of all nature,
the passing of winter and spring,
we share with the life universal,
rejoice in the magikal ring.
Four times in the year the Great Sabbat
returns, and the witches are seen
at Lammas and Candlemas dancing,
on May Eve and old Halloween.
When day time and night are equal,
when sun is at greatest and least,
the four lesser Sabbats are summoned,
again witches gather in feast.
Thirteen times at Esbat make merry,
for each golden year and a day.
The power was passed between woman and man,
each century unto the other,
ere time and ages began.
When drawn is the magikal circle,
by sword or athame of power,
it's compass between the two worlds lies,
in the land of shades that hour.
This world has no right to know it,
and the world beyond will tell naught.
The oldest of Gods are invoked there,
the great work of magik is wrought.
For two are the mystical pillars,
that stand at the gate of the shrine,
and two are the powers of nature,
the forms and the forces of the divine.
The dark and the light in succession,
the opposites each unto each,
shown forth as a God and a Goddess;
this our ancestors did teach.
By night he's the wild wind's rider,
the Horned One, the Lord of the Shades.
By day he's the King of the Woodland,
the dweller in green forest glades.
She is youthful or old as she pleases,
She sails the torn clouds in her barque,
the bright silver Lady of midnight,
the cron who weaves spells in the dark.
The master and the mistress of magik,
they dwell in the deeps of the main,
immortal and ever renewing,
with power to free or to bind.
So drink the good wine to the Old Gods,
and dance and make love of their praise,
till Elphames' fair land shall receive us.
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