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There are said to be three great mysteries -- those of Birth, Life, and Death. Or, in more defined terms, how things are created or come into manifestation, how things are sustained, and how things are destroyed or resolved into their constituent parts. We can see these mysteries operating in astrology fairly easily. If we have the birth chart of a person, we can tell if the planets or particular planets will create certain things in the life of that person, or deny certain things altogether, or even create certain things and then destroy them, either immediately or at some point thereafter. These three manifestations are also related to the Women's Mysteries. They also played a large part in the Mysteries of Eleusis, the life-and-death mysteries of the goddess Demeter.

The wisdom tradition, of which the Craft of the Wise is a part, adds another vegetable to the pot. It avers:

The force that kills is also the force that creates life.
The force that causes death is the force that produces resurrection.

With Witches, this principle is dramatized at the time of the Greater Sabbats in Fall and Winter.

The principle, itself, is ancient out-of-mind. We can even see it stated in middle Egyptian, say about 2000-1600 B.C. I will write it phonetically:

ah-ZOOL-tah TAHM, ONKH AY-nah VAH.

"The Hand of Death brings Life."

A different phrasing, but the same principle nonetheless.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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