Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
On the Necessity of Self-Initiation
There's been much making of words down the years over the question of self-initiation into the Craft, and whether or not such a thing is even possible.
Well, I'm here to tell you that not only is self-initiation possible, but that you cannot be a witch without it.
Life is a series of initiations, but no matter how many rituals you've undergone at Lady Such-and-so's hands, you cannot truly count yourself a witch until the moment when you look yourself plain in the face and say: I am a witch.
That is your deepest, truest initiation.
Witchdom is not so much conferred, as claimed. Someone who has undergone every ritual initiation from Azarak to Zamelak, but has never said to herself, I am a witch, is no witch.
Social initiation comes from without. But Deep Craft is a matter of identity.
To it, initiation can only come from within.
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