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MY CRAFT ETHICS BY JAMES CROWLEY III 12/19/86
MY CRAFT ETHICS
Copyright by James T. Crowley III 1986
This artical may be reproduced for personal
use as long as it is complete and un edited
There are doubtlessly readers of this article that believe I have
no ethics. Those readers are intitled to there opinion however
shallow I may feel that opinion is.
I am the High Priest of Covenant Of The Doves, the comments I
make
here are necessarily my personal ethics and viewpoint and not
that
of my High Priestess or members of the Coven. Even as a leader
of a coven, I have no right or power to speak for another
person. They do however necessarily govern my actions as a High
Priest.
The only way I know to state my ethical viewpoint is by a
annotated resitation of the Laws of the Craft of the Wise as they
pertain to ethics and have been revealed to me by my teachers,
the writings of others and that which the Lord and Lady have made
clear to me through their visions and actions.
I bear the mundane name Crowley that has a certain significance
in the craft community beyond my personal contributions. Yes, I
am prowed of the legacy of that name as members of my family have
played important parts in history. Aleister Crowley was by no
means the most important of them nor the least.
Aleister Crowley, the Current Lord Crowley and myself all bear
common accestors to Sir Ambrose Crowley, Lord Mayor of London (at
the time of Cromwell) and author of the 'Law Book of the Crowley
Iron Works' which is considered to be the bases of British
statutory law. This, I hope will clear up confusion about my
relationship to Aleister Crowley.
The name Hearth Witch is far more dear to me than Crowley, as it
represents a true understanding of what the WICCA is. When an
astronaut looks out of the window of his space capsule and sees
the body of our Lady looking back at him. The astronaut knows,
in that moment that technology, and the centuries of mans' labor
that put him there, are pale when compared to the wonders of our
Lady.
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