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A Coven [or covan] is a name used to describe a gathering of witches. Due to the word's association with witches, a gathering of Wiccans, followers of the witchcraft-based neopagan religion of Wicca, is described as a coven.

The word was originally a late medieval Scots word (circa 1500) meaning a gathering of any kind, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. It derives from the Latin root word convenire meaning to come together or to gather, which also gave rise to the English word convene. The first recorded use of it being applied to witches comes much later, from 1662 in the witch-trial of Isobel Gowdie, which describes a coven of 13 members.

The word coven remained largely unused in English until 1921 when Margaret Murray promoted the idea, now much disputed, that all witches across Europe met in groups of thirteen which they called 'covens'.

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For those who are interested:
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And on a more personal note:
I am not here to play games, I am a very serious individual and I don't like people taking advantage of other people, so please make life easy and just live life to the fullest and make the best of any given situation.








Athwart the atramentous reaches of the Universe, I have traversed the fathomless abyss to pause in this mundane existence to subsist among you. I sustain my desideratum by means of catalystic design. I merely borrowed the guise of a human form for solely catastrophic purposes. My objective is to observe and lucubrate for an excelled understanding of this inane mundanity.

I am never to be gazed upon, enunciated or interacted with. I am a mere beholder of this microcosm. I am a void of consciousness that dwells within the mundanity of the existential realm and that, which is beyond infinite infinity, that which is also belonging to this earth or world. Existing in a state of disorder, of unformed matter and infinite space which, cosmogonically exists before any such ordered universe, if there is to be such one.

A being that is controlling the parts of the world and aspects of life that I so desire or choose, and that, who is the personification of the force, the power that I gather from the myriad of eclecticisms that I so desire to incorporate into me, my practices, my own!

A comprehensive spirit of the Airts, which produces effects with the accomplices of the supernaturals, and by the mastery of the secret forces in nature. A life force, who is spurred on by self-deification in the more extreme senses, and that which is only a divinity by way of participation.


Translation:
I am usually a very private and most solitaire person who is forced to be in the public eye with chosen vocations and career paths. I have many interests as I have backgrounds, but my most favoured is the study of Esoterica.

Simpler Version:
If you wanna know me better, just ask me questions. Those who think they know me, really don't, those that don't know me, really shouldn't. And those that do know me, well then they are truly kindred spirits.

A Version for the Complete Morons:

Relationship Status: Married.
Body type: 5' 5".
Religion: Other.
Tattoos: 30+.
Piercings: 6+.
Zodiac Sign: Taurus.
Transport: Car.








The term “Creed” is relatively modern, from its initial word in Latin: Credo–I believe. Originally, both in the East and in the West, this formula was not called Creed, but rather Symbolum: “The Symbol of Faith.”

The Creed is not the Faith itself, but the framework upon which we develop our faith. Just as the symptoms are the effects of a disease, but not the disease itself, so also the Creed is both seed and symptom of faith.

Many times we hear someone say that he follows a particular philosophy because “it answers all my questions.” But true religion continually challenges its adherents to seek higher and higher insights–for themselves. Ingenuity inspires questions and rouses its adherents to become increasingly aware of the mysteries which must be unraveled before true spiritual mastery can be attained. A sect that puts our inquiries to rest and “satisfies” us is only a spiritual drug.

Key To Mystical Experience
A contemporary master of the spiritual life, Saint Silouan of Mount Athos, has explained that every proposition in the Creed corresponds to a mystical experience and the resulting spiritual state and insight attained thereby. First the saints and Fathers of any Church had mystical experiences through which they attained exalted states of spiritual consciousness. Then they formulated the principles expressed in the Creed. By our adoption of those same principles we begin working backwards from the verbal expressions toward the mystical consciousness of the Fathers, as Theseus found his way out of the labyrinth by unwinding the thread and then following it back.

And that spiritual vision–not the words–is our Faith.