Coven
of Cythrawl
Coven
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The Coven of Cythrawl know that the Ancient Powers exist and that in order to use these great powers, we must understand what we believe Cythrawl to be, contrary to anything else you may read elsewhere. Ancient beliefs tell in arcane language, that of the Great Cythrawl:-
"Know you all the Ancient Magick we do....three, four, five! The inner circle of Abred, three in number as are the three principles of worldly manifestation. The mid-circle of Gwynydd, four in number as are the four great divisions of the material world. The outer circle of Ceugant, five in number as are the five Divinities of the Spirit: the Triple Goddess and Dual Gods of Light and Darkness. And at the centre: "Cythrawl the Spider! ". The thirteenth, unaffected yet attuned to all that surrounds it - the beginning, the end, the unmanifest point which begets and swallows everything. The mighty Web of Achren, the breastplate of Cythrawl."
Another reason for having the "spider" grace our pages, besides being of Cythrawl, the Spider, comes from the female aspect of the Spider Goddess Arachne / Aradne / Arianhod /(Aradia?), who decends to aid us on Her magick thread, and whos spiral web is the key to rebirth!
Cythrawl, stems from the very ancient paths of Europe and Britain, but more Celtic and certainly eventually totally Druidic. The Christians in their true to fashion ‘wisdom’ made the “Horned God’, and all His likenesses such as Cernunnos, Pan, Fosite and many other names that He went by into their personalized and stylized Devil, as all these Gods and Forces were far too powerful to remove from the peasants celebratory practices, so they made them evil and against the law, for all intents and purposes. Their problems solved…
Cythrawl, like Wr-alda were, and still are, powerful forces; certainly not Satanic - as that was only “made-up” by the Church in its early growing, to disperse all opposition to their own God and political objectives of taking over Britain and of course the rest of the world eventually.
Don’t forget the old Celtic Goddess Bridgit, was so well loved by the peasants, the Christians could not get rid of Her, or downgrade Her to a Demon, so they made Her a Saint and said that she had been the midwife and Godmother of Jesus. (I’m not quite sure when Mary and Jesus was ever supposed to have visited Ireland, after having just given birth to him in a place thousands of miles away. I wonder what language they talked to each other in? This never entered anyone’s little heads in those days though and therefore, Saint Bridgit is still held in the highest esteem from Pagans and Christians alike, although She is actually a Pagan Goddess.
The Welsh Cythrel, spelt differently and taking a Christianized viewpoint, from the original Cythrawl, became the Christianized bad guy once again and I assure you, we don’t Devil worship, or anything remotely similar. It simply portrays the powerful forces of the Alpha – Omega and the beginning and the end - being one and both at the same time. Perhaps more like a mobius strip, mmnn?
Conceivably not quite ‘order out of chaos’, but more like ‘organized chaos’ it seems.
(Welsh) [KEETH-rawl] - In the Welsh cosmology, Cythrawl
archetypally symbolizes the opposing male creative force, which represents
destruction rather than creation. While this sounds very negative to
non-Pagans;
Pagans accept the powerful energy as - leading towards nothingness and being as necessary
to existence, as that which leads to creation.
Cythrawl's powerful energy has been personified as deity, and His home is in the
Otherworld where his energy is first manifested before appearing in the mortal
realm.
As the Christians, since arriving on the shores of Britain, have tried their hardest to destroy Paganism and the ways of the God and Goddess. They also clearly tended to overlay their teachings on all Pagan religions and beliefs, when they couldn't destroy it and eventually, we see a strange mixture of ancient beliefs and Druidism trying to be defined in a Christian way. They personify God and Cythrawl, being two primary existences in the Cymric cosmogony. They stand respectively for the principle of energy tending towards life, and the principle of destruction tending towards nothingness. Cythrawl is realised in the region of Annwn (annoon) - This was the word used in early literature for Hades or Fairyland, which perhaps may be rendered, the Abyss, or Chaos. In the beginning there was nothing and there rested Cythrawl in His ineffable state. The beginning - the end, the alpha - the omega.......
The totality of being as it now exists (The original Druid belief) is represented by three concentric circles. The innermost of them, where life sprang from Annwn, is called 'Abred', and is the stage of struggle and evolution - the contest of life with Cythrawl. The next is the circle of 'Gwynfyd,' or Purity, in which life is manifested as a pure, rejoicing force, having attained its triumph over evil. The last and outermost circle is called 'Ceugant,' or Infinity. Here all predicates fail us, and this circle, represented graphically not by a bounding line, (for it defies time and space), but by divergent rays, and is inhabited by what the Christians believe is God alone. The following extract from the Druid BARDDAS in which the alleged bardic teaching is conveyed in catechism form, will serve to show the order of ideas in which the writer's mind moved:
Every being, we are told, shall attain to the circle of Gwynfyd at last.
There is much here that reminds us of Gnostic or Oriental thought. It is certainly very unlike Christian orthodoxy of the sixteenth century and retains most of the Druid belief and content. As a product of the Cymric mind of that period the reader may take it for what it is worth, without troubling himself either with antiquarian theories or with their refutations. But where 'Barddas' is mentioning Annwn as the state where life begins, the original Gnosticism doesn't operate with a beginning (because, if there is a beginning there also has to be an end), but with an eternal spiral which is life & the force (Christian belief is of course God) and within this spiral are all the lesser (pulmonary) circulations or spirals, which contains evolutionary, individually but still indivisible life’s, who develop through the stages of mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms and again as pure spirit, ending each lesser spiral being 'One with God'. This stage may last for eons of 'time' but will automatically lead to another lesser spiral where it starts all over again, but always in a higher degree, and so on in eternity. (Micro- Middle- and Macrocosm has and will always exist inside each other). These thoughts can be read in the Danish writer Martinus'(1890-1981) work THE THIRD TESTAMENT (# 431) and may complete the Cymric (i.e. Celtic) cosmogony, and thus include Cythrawl as a part of God's being, which some interpretations of Druidism also contains.
# 111 - 431 - 562 - 612
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