This is in interfaith so it's a no-debate zone. I'm not looking for a debate, I'm looking for opinions, academic, spiritual, or otherwise. Naturally, this is in regards to my new religion so this is more for spitballing ideas than debate. Thanks.
I've noticed that many Pagan paths include such things as magic (in AE, 'heka'), astrology, spellwork, magic rituals and so on. While astrology as Western Pagans understand it doesn't really occur in Kemetic thought until the Greeks came along, there was definitely a kind of astrology. My issue is that these kinds of ideas are nonsensical to me and always have seemed so. Put me right if I'm wrong, but Paganisms in general seem to hold the fundamental idea that humans can have some impact on their environments whether it be with heka or spellwork, and that the environment in turn can have effects on humans, such as astrology.
Would you say that's right?
These ideas are wholly contrary to what I believe and would you say it's possible to be a Pagan, at least in any meaningful sense, whilst not believing in these principles? Is there a Pagan idea of what I would call non-interference?
Takk.
I've noticed that many Pagan paths include such things as magic (in AE, 'heka'), astrology, spellwork, magic rituals and so on. While astrology as Western Pagans understand it doesn't really occur in Kemetic thought until the Greeks came along, there was definitely a kind of astrology. My issue is that these kinds of ideas are nonsensical to me and always have seemed so. Put me right if I'm wrong, but Paganisms in general seem to hold the fundamental idea that humans can have some impact on their environments whether it be with heka or spellwork, and that the environment in turn can have effects on humans, such as astrology.
Would you say that's right?
These ideas are wholly contrary to what I believe and would you say it's possible to be a Pagan, at least in any meaningful sense, whilst not believing in these principles? Is there a Pagan idea of what I would call non-interference?
Takk.
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