What do occultists or magick practitioners feel of Jesus Christ?
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We all know what Christians think of occultists, pagans, and magick or witchcraft practitioners. What I want to know is what those folks that are into sorcery and magick and withccraft think about Jesus Christ. Do they feel He was just human, or somebody learned of sorcery, too, or genuinely Son of God. I want to hear specially from people who practices sorcery or even demonology.
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Answer by ~*Μα’ϊϊἧɡαἧ*~
I feel there is the *possibility* of some influential man being around at the time of “Christ” that instructed and educated valuable teachings and ways of life, even so I do not believe he was any deity or son of any deity. I believe he was such a good teacher that he was worshipped and put on a pedestal so high he was raised to a level of a deity. But I feel he was nothing more than a mere human.
What do you feel? Answer below!
February 3rd, 2012 on 7:57 pm
I think Jesus of Nazareth was a human, like the rest of us… a charismatic magician, a wise teacher and a revolutionary who had a beautiful view of God and mankind. I think he was a hero and an enlightened being. I think we are ALL children of deity, so this “son of God” thing is a moot point. I don’t believe that he died to “save” me. He died because of tragic betrayal, corruption and fear and his life and death have been profoundly meaningful to many people, so his mythology is worth understanding.
He is not he first person, mythologically speaking, to die and be reborn. His resurrection myth is similar to many solar and grain deities.
I admire him as a historical figure and, in part, as a bodhisattva or kami (enlightened being, buddha, spirit, ancestor or angel depending on how you translate those terms) but not as a savior. There is nothing that I need to be “saved” from.
I’ve been a pagan anda witch for nearly ten years.
-Scarlet
February 3rd, 2012 on 8:08 pm
I think Jesus was a man…not a god. I think he was a wise man who had excellent leadership and teaching skills, and that he mastered some magical practice of his own (what some call miracles, others call magic).
Just as people of the time associated any phenomenon they couldn’t easily explain to a god, so was Jesus believed to be divine.
I have a great respect for a lot of what Jesus taught. If only more claim-to-be Christians would apply his teachings to their lives more.
I agree with Ma’iingan and Scarlet’s answers as well.
February 3rd, 2012 on 8:56 pm
I think of him as a rabbi and apocalyptic preacher. In the Old Testament, a Son of God is a term for someone who is faithful to G-d, obedient to his heavenly father. The miraculous virgin birth is a Pagan interpretion. After his death, his followers said that sacrifice of animals was no longer required by G-d, because Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice. Quibbling over his nature is less important than the message that G-d’s forgiveness is available to all due to that sacrifice.
February 3rd, 2012 on 9:20 pm
Opinions about Jesus Christ vary among occultists and Witchcraft practitioners. I will give you my view, though.
I think of Jesus as a teacher and a leader. Being Wiccan, I respect Jesus, but I do not believe in the dogma of Christianity.
February 3rd, 2012 on 9:45 pm
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
He’s aight, I guess. I mean, it’s not anything new or special, even for the time. That being said, the character provides some pretty good advice, but I disagree entirely on the cosmology, being a Thelemite. The compassion bit is strong, but too few people realize it is balanced by severity in several places. My view personally is that he never existed, but it is a story of attainment; but I’m not attached to the view.
Love is the Law, Love under Will.
February 3rd, 2012 on 9:50 pm
He was one of a long line of prophets and teachers, and there have been others since. I think he did something really valuable, for humanity, and that he had a lot of really great ideas, but I don’t think he was any more or any less significant than someone like Moses or Muhammad.
February 3rd, 2012 on 9:51 pm
Someone elses problem