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This is fine. What you are doing is not slavish worship. Slavish worship is with Islam, for example, enforced "prayer" where Sharia law mandates everyone just drop whatever they are doing, 5 times a day and sometimes even more, so they can give their energies to swine excrement Allah. Then in Christianity, there's jewsus... Enough said?
High Priestess Maxine Dietrich
www.joyofsatan.org
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ashleyslade0124
Is it still okay to worship or pray to your Gods at all if you want to even though you don't have to? I know this seems like an odd question it's just I was Pagan for a long time before coming here and I always bow down in front of my altar and say prayers to my Gods and Goddesses I really do worship them, it naturally provokes an emotional high in me now when I perform rituals in this way I don't want to give it up. Even though it may seem slavish but the Gods just inspire me and have blessed me so many times or they just do something to me that I can't explain.
I don't have the psychic ability to communicate with them one on one so I send them prayers and it is like their presence comes in and it creates a shift in my mindset or perception to where I am capable of things I wasn't before, like Nergal something about his power is so incredible I always pray to him before any meditation or magickal working and it's like my willpower skyrockets with him by my side and I have success in magick that I can't imagine having on my own. Asherah has helped me a lot as well and I am really close to a God named Qos many people might not have heard of Qos but he is amazing. They just have a way of making me feel like everythings going to be alright and how life is a beautiful thing, I can do anything. It's an amazing feeling.
High Priestess Maxine Dietrich
www.joyofsatan.org
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ashleyslade0124
Is it still okay to worship or pray to your Gods at all if you want to even though you don't have to? I know this seems like an odd question it's just I was Pagan for a long time before coming here and I always bow down in front of my altar and say prayers to my Gods and Goddesses I really do worship them, it naturally provokes an emotional high in me now when I perform rituals in this way I don't want to give it up. Even though it may seem slavish but the Gods just inspire me and have blessed me so many times or they just do something to me that I can't explain.
I don't have the psychic ability to communicate with them one on one so I send them prayers and it is like their presence comes in and it creates a shift in my mindset or perception to where I am capable of things I wasn't before, like Nergal something about his power is so incredible I always pray to him before any meditation or magickal working and it's like my willpower skyrockets with him by my side and I have success in magick that I can't imagine having on my own. Asherah has helped me a lot as well and I am really close to a God named Qos many people might not have heard of Qos but he is amazing. They just have a way of making me feel like everythings going to be alright and how life is a beautiful thing, I can do anything. It's an amazing feeling.
