Matthew 23:25

“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy–full of greed and self-indulgence!

There are those who have persevered the Old Ways and the Names of the Old Gods.
My only concern is a lack of resolve. I see pagans that are so full of uncertainty as to the knowledge they have been taught. The old ways once had order. Where is the order among the pagans today? Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Norse and Celtic included?

If Wicca means wisdom, and it is the primary principle of a faith then where is this wisdom and why would a person be allowed a position of authority after a year and a day or even three years and three days? The ability to know is not the ability to understand. Having knowledge does not mean you understand it.

Quoted religious text and memorized rituals may be knowledge, but without understanding they are just empty motions. Such actions are much like children imitating the adults in the room. When the Children of Moloch sacrificed their firstborn in fire how is it different from the witches and heathens burned at the stake in the name of yhwh? All of these were burnt sacrifices were they not? Yet somehow during these enlightened times this is acceptable.

These were nothing more than elemental sacrifices to appease a notoriously bloodthirsty god. Drowning by water, and stoning by earth, and burning by fire and hanging by air. These witches or pagans were the sacrifices made to a dark god.

These small, constantly shifting circles full of self educated clergy are fragile at best. They tend to schism faster… Wisdom and experience comes through putting to use what you have learned.