They are everywhere
You are watching a spellbinding moment on Charmed and the bell rings…
Enjoying a quiet stroll by the riverside and there you hear them shout…
Rushing to a client meeting and they will still run into you before you run for the train…
Go to the supermarket to buy a toilet roll and there they are…lurking…waiting…pouncing on anyone who seems like a nice person
And before you know it a magazine will be shoved through your door or a hand will firmly place a finger on that book which has the words of their God and they will read out a line or two in an attempt to demonstrate how nice the book is…hoping you will be lured into reading it. They will make every attempt to preach through their book. Yes they are passionate promoters of their faith.
If Wiccans would take even one millionth of this kind of effort to publicise their faith, I guarantee you that even the pigs and chickens in the galaxy will become Wiccans in no time. (but thank Goddess we are not chasing followers)
So here is today’s ‘conversion’, enjoy!
A young woman on the street, “Hi, you look like you speak another language than English, are you Portuguese?”
I (aware of my Asian skin tone), “No, don’t worry, I speak English”
She begins to pulls a thin magazine from her bag
I, “I know you are from a church, don’t worry that magazine is already delivered to my house”
She, “So do you enjoy reading it?”
I, “I have read it once”
She keeps the magazine back and pulls The Book out of her bag and points at a para, “Do you know the prophecy, just like the Lord’s prayer….kingdom come….on earth as in heaven….see here in this book. The day is coming when God will establish his government on earth and it will be better for everyone. Do you believe in this?”
I, “Its great that the world is getting better”. I look at my baby sleeping in the pram and at the road ahead hoping she gets the hint.
She comes in front again, “See just like you love your baby our father loves us too, he is God, do you believe in him?”
I “Sure you can call God mother, or anything else too”
She, “Yes but Jesus said father, our father in heaven will come and change our earth. Do you believe it?”
I, “See no one is coming from outside to heal us, we must learn healing ourselves. God is within, its our inner self”
She, “But God is a personality who is outside and there is also a Devil who is the opposite of him”
I, “All the positive energy is God and its in us too, like a wave flowing through all of us. We need to meditate to be aware of the energy”
She seems interested, so I go on, “Devil is ignorance, because when we are ignorant of this energy that unites us, then we harm others because we falsely believe ourselves to be different. But all karma comes back to us eventually because we are interconnected as one. When we are aware of karma we do good”
She, “That’s really good. Its written here in the book that God created the earth, he made Adam and Eve, in Genesis, see here…in his image…so yes it may be that we all have the qualities of God, See its written here God has these qualities, Love, Wisdom, Power…its written here…Jesus said, God is love. But I always thought God is a distinct personality, a being, who has created us like its written here in Genesis. So who has created us if there is nothing outside?”
I, “God is an unlimited energy. Like you said, its love…its a creative energy that forms everything. Its not a person somewhere outside…its not a limited personality with a limited form. We all have it inside and we can all channel this positive energy, even you can do it.”
She, “But we are told that this book has the words of God so everything is there in it, we have to follow it. We have to read it everyday. I can send you one.”
I, “I have one thank you, I have read it…it was a different version, but see I have a nice way of reading this one…let’s see I will try to get a message for you from this book.”
I perform a Bibliomancy reading for her, reading a random para after meditating and focusing on what she needs to know to give a message to her.
Gosh, its a para about how Jehovah was angry and burnt a city and all the people. (Those kinds are what they avoid reading when they are soft selling)
I, “Look the book says God is love so how is it that this book indicates that he had this anger issue as well, what’s all this burning cities and people”
She trembles a bit, “Yes, I suppose he was angry because people were not being nice to each other… but yes I see what you are saying…its hard to believe that God can have anger also, if it is made of love”
I, “Look here there is something about magic and divination written here”
She, “Yes its written in Deuteronomy 18:10 that there should not be anyone who practices divination, or magic, or talk to spirits”
I, “But divination is all about listening to intuition, its the only way of knowing the truth for yourself …we have to feel God within, meditate and listen to the inner voice. And magic is all about using the inner energy of God for healing so that we can be self reliant, its God’s energy, even spirits need healing”
She, “But see we are told that God wants us to be loyal to him, just like you will want your husband to be loyal to you and not go outside, similarly we should not go to other gods, there are many other gods, there are gods of Egypt and animal gods and god in idols… and we should not believe in other gods”
I, “Idols are not gods, they are symbols of various godly powers, like Durga symbolises protection from evil forces. Nothing wrong with idols. And all gods and goddesses are one but they all symbolise various positive powers, so what do you mean by ‘other gods’…all is one, we are all one. God will never say those things”
She, “Yes we are all one, what you say is true. But then why will the Book say that our God is different from other gods, and we should not believe in any other gods… and why will it say we should not use divination or magic?”
I, “Why don’t you ask the people who wrote these books why they are writing such things? Someone has written this book and then they have made so many versions of it right?”
She (thinks for the first time instead of reading), “Right, thank you. So what do you think we should do to make the world better.”
I, “We should all learn meditation, healing and magic. You should learn magic. That the message from the Bible through divination. Blessed Be!”
Swati Prakash 