Good Deeds and Vendors

Within Pagan Conventions there is usually a vendor room where people sell wares and different assortments of goods. From books, stickers, henna, clothing, tea and one vendor was a taxidermist selling bones of animals. Sometimes within the vendor room it is hard to have conversations with people because there are usually a ton of people buying different things. Surprisingly I was able to have one conversation with a vendor.

Money Drawing Magic - Part 2

As I talked about in Part 1, this seminar was about using magic to draw money to a person. Which is understandable to want to be financially stable but we also should be relying on God for our needs. I wanted to recap part of the seminar where the speaker said something interesting; he stated that he uses the Bible within his rituals. That “So when you're working these things and you're elevating the spirit, be very mindful of how your spirit interacts with the spirit that you're calling. You want to read Psalm 65. Align your mind and your spirit. You want to listen to the Holy Spirit.”

Money Drawing Magic - Part 1

I didn’t think I was going to attend a seminar about Money drawing Magic but one of my friends wanted to attend this talk so I ended up joining her to hear what this speaker had to say. The speaker walked through how to set up an alter on how to magically draw money to you. When he was explaining this and how to do a ritual for bringing money in. He said something interesting; he stated that he uses the Bible within his rituals. That “So when you're working these things and you're elevating the spirit, be very mindful of how your spirit interacts with the spirit that you're calling. You want to read Psalm 65. Align your mind and your spirit. You want to listen to the Holy Spirit.”

Welcome to Passages to Spiritual Discovery

Pagan Conventions usually have different themes each year.This one that I went to was more about different passages of spiritual discovery. There were a lot of rituals and talks about finding yourself and healing. Though there were also seminars on money magic, haunted dolls, fairies and even tree identification. The main theme looking at though is finding out who you are and that there are many pathways that can lead you to that answer. 

 

The Truth of the Matter

I normally don’t start this way but John 4:5-15 really puts this into perspective. John 4:5-15 states “So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”  (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?” Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life. The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

The people at this event were looking for something, to experience, to find themselves, to bring them to that spiritual level that they hope for. The thing is if they keep doing this they will always have to drink again. They would never find the living water that they so desperately look for. As Jesus said he is the one that gives the living water. John 14:6 states, “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” He is the only way to quench the unquenchable thirst, to find rest for the searching soul and to bring peace to it as well. If not for him then we would all still be searching. He is the answer, the true living water.

With that, welcome to Paganicon Passages to Spiritual Discovery