Conference hydra::dejavu

377.0. "Witch or Angel?" by MIDCIM::KORNS (Life's a Beach) Thu Jun 11 1987 14:39

    Reading note #373 got me to thinking about a friend that I've
    met recently.  The note mentioned a Witch who referred to herself
    and other Witches as 'healers', and was calling upon all Pagans
    to participate in a fund raising effort.
    
    Well, my friend is a Holistic Health Pratictioner.  Working in the
    areas of Nutrition, Colonics, Crystal Shakra Balancing/Healing,
    Past Life Regressions, and Aura Analysis.  She basically describes
    herself as a healer.  She communicates with guides and spirits,
    and claims to be able to have spirit guides manifest themselves
    in a visible form.  One of her most powerful affirmations is as
    follows;    
    		I envoke the light of the Christ with-in.
    
    		I am a clear and perfect channel.
    
    		Light is my guide.
    
    She also claims Jesus Christ as her God and Savior which to me,
    rules her out as a Pagan or a Witch (at least as far as I understand
    the terms).
    
    She has also mentioned getting together with other women at the
    time of the Summer Solstice for worship and meditation.
    
    Is she a Witch, or is she an Angel?
    
    I would be interested in hearing your opinions, and any information
    that would educate me further in this area.  
    
    Oh yes, also, she puts a great deal of weight on Lazarus, and Da
    Free John teachings.
    
    Thanks in advance
    

    
    "Witch" usually refers to one who follows a path like Wicca (or
    on one perverted sense, the Satanic movement), although the "famtrad"
    witches may be Christian.  Many [white] witches are Pagans.
    
    Therefore, she most likely cannot be classified as a witch [unless
    you use Chuck Hitchcock's definition of witch as being anyone who
    calls himself or herself a witch; then she'd be one only if she
    claimed she was one].
    
    "Angel" generally refers to a discarnate being, though in the story
    of Lot, we had apparantly incarnate ones -- but sent from and
    presumably created directly by God.  I don't _think_ she falls in
    either category, so "angel," except as a term of endearment, wouldn't
    seem appropriate, either.
    
    Why not just call her what _she_ calls herself -- a "healer"?
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.