Book of Shadows (rituals, tradition, experience, spiritual, bible)

[Littledragon]

My BoS is on an external hard drive for my computer. I like its portability (not sure if thats a word hmm..) and also that I can carry it with me without worrying about someone finding it and reading it. I also have a green journal that I keep some of the more impotant stuff in, but that on never leaves the house.

Sweet Water and Light Laughter
Littledragon

[astarath]

my journal is my personal revelations of truth as given to me by God, I suppose that this would be similar to a BOS would it not?

[religious_by_nature]

any information that I think I will need is kept in there. Mine is green and I try to keep it with me at all times.

[KSojourner]

I love hearing about what everybody has in their Books.

While I don't call mine a BOS, I do have a three ring notebook that I keep (or several, really). One part has articles, new articles, information from websites and blogs that have been printed out (I go through a lot of ink and paper!). Another part is a notebook in which I write down my thoughts about anything that pop up at anytime during the day (It used to be a regular old notebook, but recently I have switched to Moleskine journals). A third part of the three ring binder is papers and articles that I have written myself regarding what what works for me, my beliefs, ethics, etc.

This is a system that I started when I was about 15, so as I said above, I have several of these three ring binders. I have one from early on that has many things printed out from The Riders of the Cyrstal Wind BOS, which is a collection of articles written by people who frequented the old BBS systems. (That is, before the internet for you youngsters out there. ) I have a few more that include other things that were printed out on the web from when I was younger.

I have one that includes information about gods; "dictionaries," pages of myths, list of various patheons, list of what gods are connected to (such as these gods are the gods of war; these are the gods of charity; etc.)

I have another one that includes only information regarding Heathenry (or Asatru).

Most people see a BOS as a place to store their collection of spells, poetry, stories, amongst other information. As I'm not into spellwork and I admittedly dislike poetry, my collection contained in my books includes articles written on concepts, ideas, ethics, history and much more.