The Order
Overview & Foundations
The foundational view of the tradition.
Introduction
The Book of the Covenant began as a practical guide for clarity: a way to explain belief, practice, procedure, and expectation in a chapel setting. That original purpose still matters. Clear language protects the work, helps sincere seekers, and gives chaplains or coordinators a reliable point of reference.
What Is Wicca
Wicca is a pre-Christian, nature-based, European religion that teaches the mysteries of life for the spiritual betterment of those who adhere to its tenets and those encountered along the journey.
Wicca is a duly constituted and recognized religion under First Amendment protection according to Federal law through Dettmer v. Landon, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, decided September 4, 1986.
Wicca being a nature-based religion does not mean that nature is worshiped. The tradition recognizes One Divine Source. Because all life comes from that Source, including everything in nature, every person, animal, and all of nature should be treated with the respect and honor entitled to the One Divine Source. Through interrelationship with the lessons and cycles of the natural world, we learn more about nature itself and about our own lives.
Statement
The purpose of the group is to learn who each of us truly is: alone, within, and as part of the whole.
The goal is to learn who we truly are in the face of adversity, to learn strength through humility, and from that humbled place to recognize and understand grace and mercy.
We follow this path in worship and honor of the God and Goddess and in daily life as well. We see beauty in the mundane, in the struggle, and in the lessons learned.
We follow this path because it leads to us.
Blessed Be.
Our View of the Divine
Section 1 names one Divine Source and honors the God and Goddess as balanced currents within that Source. The full public teaching is gathered on The Divine Source page.
Our Patron God and Goddess
The tradition honors Cernunnos and Cerridwen as patron faces of the God and Goddess. They represent solar and lunar current, physical and deeper love, the underworld and the astral plane, nature, light, inspiration, intuition, and the Cauldron.