The complexity of Wicca
While the obscene complexity of Wicca makes the art pleasurable, or fun, to perform, through the creation of the idea of power and the omniscience that comes from the construction of metaphysical cause and effect relationships, I pose the question: Would Wicca be as pleasurable if it was limited to Mind and reality? To illustrate my question. Would it be preferred to have a magical stone that when placed within a circle causes some event to occur. Or would it be preferred to directly impose thought onto reality without using a “waving of the hands” as a mental touchstone?
Argument for complexity:
Complexity is necessary for the Wiccan to reach happiness because the cause and effect relationships are the direct extension of the faculty of imagination onto one, or many, objects or events. A healthy, good, and productive imagination can lead to happiness being produced within a good object who has well developed virtues and obeys Wiccan ethical doctrine.
The beautiful complexity, majesty, and mystery of Wicca coupled with it’s ethical philosophical dogmas make Wicca not only a way to happiness but the ultimate way for those who value beauty, life, love, and truth.
On the contrary:
The Complexity and “unnatural” Wiccan magic causes the religion to contradict itself, and this contradiction hinders one from reaching the goal of happiness. While nature is reasonable, consistent, and intelligent, for example the lions teeth were given to it to eat and the plant grows towards the sun so that it can feed. Using some object, made of some substance, and chanting (multi-tonal sonic vibration) with the thought in mind of some event occurring at some later date is unintelligently reasonable. A religion that has as its core concept “the worship of nature” and has as a philosophical doctrine of peace, which does not exist in nature, is contradicting itself. I state that any religion that contradicts itself can not stand and that happiness is the result of a healthy “mind environment” and the proper subsequent ordering of it. Furthermore, to assert that complexity equals happiness is not only wrong but a horrific fallacy that is no more true then it is real.
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