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ok i have been readingthe truth about Whitchcraft today by Scott Cunningham. and in the first page of chaper 5 under Ceremonial Magic it says: "Its based on Sumerian, Egyptian,Indian and Semitic magic, with Arabic and later Christain thought. Freemasonry also contributed to its structure..."
Im fasanated!!!
1) Is catholosism a blend of Wicca and Christianity?
2) Is the Freemasonry the same as the Masonic Lodge?
3) Is it a religian or part of Wicca?

I have my Dads masonic lodge Bible so I thought it was a Chirstion Club but my church said it was demon worship which i found insulting and funny seens the Masonic Bible is a Holy Bible and is the same word for word as there own Bibles!!!

Are Masonic Lodges part of Freemasonry? Yes, they are descended from that tradition. However, you'd do best to talk with a Freemason about their traditions.

Is Freemasonry Wicca? No, I wouldn't consider Freemasonry to be a part of Wicca. In fact, I'd consider Freemansonry to be something you could believe in alongside a religion, however, it's really oriented towards Christianity.

so what is shape shifting, astro projestion, and can you really float on air?

I've never done astral projection and I've never actually floated on air, so that's about all I can say there.

As for shape-shifting, I once had a profound experience, while wide awake, where I had the distinct bodily sense of turning into a wolf. I don't know how to explain what happened exactly that day, as it's not something I can openly discuss, but I think shape shifting is valid and some people probably can learn to do it at will.

One of my tattoos also carries a distant meaning of "wer-" like in werwolf, as told to me by a fellow student when I was in graduate school. This Chinese girl was asking me what my kanji tattoo meant, and was surprised I knew a primary and secondary meaning for it. She then told me this third meaning.

so in shape-shifting you physicaly change in to a wolf? or you just feel like one? that confuses me? and if this is not open to decusion i understand.

well, I didn't see myself change, as I said I was wide awake. However, the physical sense and utter sensation when I closed my eyes was that I was a wolf. Like I said, it was hard to describe, but I was awake, I wasn't alone and I wasn't sick, or on drugs.

is it some thing you wanted to do? or did it just happen? and why?

I don't know why it happened, I didn't mind that it happened, and I wouldn't mind if it were to happen again.

I'm hoping that if I continue to learn and grow spiritually, that I'll be able to look back on the experience and see what it was trying to teach me.

This happened to a friend of mine...She felt herself turning into a large bird, and though she was unable to identify it specifically, she knew she was looking for prey....

She now feels that it might have been an inner-body manifestation of a previous Life...
But I am not attempting to suggest anything in that vein to you....Just a thought.....

intresting i never thought about it that way. i lived in az for a while and there were somethings that i just could not explane that i saw, felt...some of them i had a peaceful, calm feeling and other scared the fertlizer out of me. and then some it what like ok whatever. i have had wierd thing happen all my life even "Superstions" that have not taught or pychological base to them.