CHAPTER I: How Diana Gave Birth to Aradia (Herodias)
This is the Gospel (Vangelo) of the Witches: Diana greatly loved her brother Lucifer, the god of the Sun and of the Moon, the god of Light (Splendor), who was so proud of his beauty, and who for his pride was driven from Paradise. Diana had by, her brother a daughter, to whom they gave the name of Aradia [i.e. Herodias]. In those days there were on earth many rich and many poor. The rich made slaves of all the poor. In those days were many slaves who were cruelly treated; in every palace tortures, in every castle prisoners. Many slaves escaped. They fled to the country; thus they became thieves and evil folk. Instead of sleeping by night, they plotted escape and robbed their masters, and then slew them. So they dwelt in the mountains and forests as robbers and assassins, all to avoid slavery.
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Diana said one day to her daughter Aradia:
'Tis true indeed that thou a spirit art, But thou wert born but to become again A mortal; thou must go to earth below To be a teacher unto women and men Who fain would study witchcraft in thy school Yet like Cain's daughter thou shalt never be, Nor like the race who have become at last Wicked and infamous from suffering, As are the Jews and wandering Zingari, Who are all thieves and knaves; like unto them Ye shall not be.... And thou shalt be the first of witches known; And thou shalt be the first of all in the world; And thou shalt teach the art of poisoning, Of poisoning those who are great lords of all; Yea, thou shalt make them die in their palaces; And thou shalt bind the oppressor's soul (with power);[1] And when ye find a peasant who is rich, Then ye shall teach the witch, your pupil, how To ruin all his crops with tempests dire, With lightning and with thunder (terrible), And the hall and wind.... And when a priest shall do you injury by his benedictions, ye shall do to him double the harm, and do it in the name Of me, Diana, Queen of witches all! And when the priests or the nobility shall say to you that you should put your faith In the Father, Son, and Mary, then reply: "Your God, the Father, and Maria are three devils.... "For the true God the Father is not yours; for I have come to sweep away the bad, the men of evil, all will I destroy! "Ye who are poor suffer with hunger keen, and toll in wretchedness, and suffer too Full oft imprisonment; yet with it all ye have a soul, and for your sufferings ye shall be happy in the other world, But ill the fate of all who do ye wrong!"
Now when Aradia had been taught, taught to work all witchcraft, how to destroy the evil race (of oppressors) she (imparted it to her pupils) and said unto them: When I shall have departed from this world, Whenever ye have need of anything, Once in the month, and when the moon is full, Ye shall assemble in some desert place, Or in a forest all together join To adore the potent spirit of your queen, My mother, great Diana. She who fain would learn all sorcery yet has not won its deepest secrets, them my mother will teach her, in truth all things as yet unknown. And ye shall all be freed from slavery, And so ye shall be free in everything; And as the sign that ye are truly free, Ye shall be naked in your rites, both men And women also: this shall last until The last of your oppressors shall be dead; And ye shall make the game of Benevento, Extinguishing the lights, and after that Shall hold your supper thusly.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION & PREFACE
An introduction and preface to this abridged collection of excerpts from the Aradia.
CHAPTER I
How Diana Gave Birth to Aradia (Herodias)
Of the
sufferings of Mankind, and how Diana sent Aradia on earth to
relieve them by teaching resistance and Sorcery-Poem addressed
to Mankind-How to invoke Diana or Aradia.
CHAPTER II
The Sabbat-Treguenda or Witch-Meeting
How to consecrate
the supper - Conjuration of the meal and of Salt-Invocation to
Cain - Conjuration of Diana and to Aradia.
CHAPTER III
How Diana Made the Stars and the Rain
CHAPTER IV
The Charm of the Stones Consecrated to Diana - The Incantation
of Perforated Stones - The Spell
or Conjuration of the Round Stone
CHAPTER V
The Conjuration of the Lemon and Pins-Incantation to
Diana
CHAPTER VI
A Spell to Win Love
CHAPTER VII
To Find or Buy Anything, or to Have Good Fortune
Thereby
CHAPTER VIII
How Have a Good Vintage and Very Good Wine By the Aid of
Diana
CHAPTER IX
Tana and Endamone, or Diana and Endymion
CHAPTER X
Madonna Diana
A Legend of Cettardo, and how Diana
appeared with ten Bridesmaids to give away a Bride- Incantation
to Diana for a Wedding.
CHAPTER XI
The House of the Wind
Showing how Diana rescued a Lady
from Death at the House ol the Wind in Volterra.
CHAPTER XII
Tana or Diana, The Moon-Goddess
CHAPTER XIII
Diana and the Children
CHAPTER XIV
The Goblin Messengers of Diana and Mercury
CHAPTER XV
Laverna
APPENDIX
A collection of thoughts and comments on the Aradia from its author.