Retribution
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Excerpts from Bucklands Complete Book of Witchcraft
Retribution
Along with reincarnation go t houghts of Karma. Karma is usually thought
of as a reward and punishment system stretching throughout all lifetimes:
if you do evil in one life you will have to pay for it in the next.
However, it seems that there is always talk of "karmic debts" and "karmic
punishments" but seldom of "karmic rewards". The Witchcraft view seems to
make more sense.
First of all there is a Wiccan belief in retribution within each life. In
other words, rather than being rewarded and punished after death, for what you have
done in life (the traditional Christian view), Witches believe that you get your
rewards and punishments during this lifetime, according to how you live it. Do
good and you will get back good. But do evil and evil will return. More than that,
though, it is a three-fold retribution. Do good and you will get back three times
the good; do evil and you will receive three times the evil. Obviously there is
here no inducement for you to ever harm anyone. Of course it is not a literal
threefold return. if you were to punch someone in the eye, it does not mean
that you will get punched in the eye yourself three times, no but sometime in the
future, you may just happen to break a leg... something which might be considered three
times as bad as being punched in the eye.
In the Witchcraft belief, then, one lifetime's experiences are not dependent
on the previous one's. For example, if you suffer physical abuse in this life,
it does not necessarily mean that you were an abuser in your previous life.
It is possible you were, yes. But it is just as possible that you were not but
are going to be in the next life. In other words, it is a case of experiencing
all things being both the abuser and the abusee, but one is not necessarily
dependent on the other. Several lifetimes could even take place between the one
experience and its apparent correlative.
Just because you have chosen a particular lifetime and are to undergo the set
experiences does not mean that you can just sit back and say "Everything is preordained,
I'm just along for the ride." The god and the Goddess will make sure that you do get
all the particular experiences but your job is to progress; to strive your
hardest towards perfection. YOU CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY. Whatever you want, you can
achieve. But always remember the Wiccan Rede: "An it harm none do what thu wilt."
Whenever possible, help those less fortunate than yourself. By "help" I do not
mean "interferre". Help can be fiven by simply offering advice; by showing compassion;
even sometimes, by actually refusing direct assistance. For, in this latter case,
it is sometimes of the greatest help and to the other's benefit to make them give
a little more effort: to make them think for themselves.
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