improve their world, and that the WHAT IS CORRELLIANISM? role of spiritual organizations is not merely to preserve and pass on Correllianism is a belief system that SIXTEEN ONE knoFwleOdgeUbutRto eTxpaEnd EandN is generaTlly cHonsRiderEed tEo be a form increase knowledge. It is never of Wicca, but is also sometimes enough for us to leave the world as regarded as a form of Spiritualism good as we found it -we must or of Pagan Universalism. Many always try to leave it a better place Correllians consider Correllianism to for our having been here. be a thing unto itself, related to but not necessarily part of, many other movements.

Correllians seek to understand the Universe and humanity’s place in it. The nature of (God), the , and Karma, are very important in Correllian thought. Correllians also study the ways in which people can use the higher powers of the Soul, commonly termed “magic”, to influence their lives for the better, and have a strong focus on moral

little to too much, with Virtue being only creatures that are recognizably times as needed for us to learn the moving slowly into the level of the found not at either extreme but in sentient, like people and animals, lessons they hold. When the Astral . the middle. Thus too little of any but also to things like plants and lessons of the situations are learned quality wTill Wbe baEd, aLs Vwill Etoo much stones whichFweIValsoEbelieve are the Karma isTreleEaseNd, and no When weSsayEthaVt wEe arNe “moving – only at the center is the quality a living. Correllians believe that longer holds us. Moreover we through the Planes” what we really Virtue. Let us consider compassion everything has a Soul, and that at believe that intentionally working to mean is that we are becoming more as an example. Too little the Soul level everything that exists learn these lessons can speed the and more aware of these levels of compassion is hard-heartedness, is equal in its potential, if not process of releasing our Karma. existence. Aspects of our Soul exist not a virtue. But too much necessarily its experience. in all of the Seven Planes already, compassion enables bad behavior Correllians place great importance but we are generally not conscious and is also not a virtue. Only Correllians believe in reincarnation. on morality and the idea of “Virtue”. of them. The process of becoming balanced in the center do we find We believe that all live many We regard the Wiccan Rede as conscious of these different levels the Virtue of compassion. The same lives – countless lives in fact. During being the strongest moral of our being is what is meant by is true for courage – too little is its journey through incarnation the statement. The Wiccan Rede is “Do “moving through the Planes.” timidity, but too much is Soul begins with simple forms and As You Will But Harm None”. This is foolhardiness. Only at the center is as it gains more and more a common-sense corollary to the Those parts of our being that we are courage a Virtue. Because of this experiences it moves to sixteenth century Law of : already conscious of are described viewpoint Correllians reject the idea progressively more complex modes “Do As You Will”. The Law of as the “Lower Self” and encompass of “Good and Evil” as opposites, of existence. Souls currently living Thelema is a statement of ultimate the Physical, Emotional, and Mental holding rather that Good is in the as human have experienced faith in humanity – that left to “Do As aspects of our existence. Those middle path and never at the countless lives as simpler You Will” the true nature of aspects of our being that we are not extreme. organisms before their first human humanity is to do the right thing - generally conscious of but must issues such as the Wiccan Rede Correllians believe that the world and the concept of Virtue. has gone through many Ages, which have been colored by Correllians believe in the Hermetic FOUR differTentHeneIrgRiesT. WEe beElievNe that TWO FIFTEEN Maxim “As Above So Below”. This is we are currently at the very opening the idea that everything that exists of the Age of Aquarius, during which reflects Deity, which is its origin, and we expect to see a continued also that everything that exists expansion of consciousness and embodies Deity via the Soul, which increasing expression of the powers itself is a small portion of Deity. of the higher powers of the soul in Thus Deity is in all things, and may the material world. We believe that be accessed and interacted with ultimately, far in the future, all of the through all things, and nothing is powers of will be consciously ever truly separate from Deity. manifest in the physical world. Correllians believe that the Earth is Correllians believe that the world is a living thing, as is the Universe in a constant state of spiritual and itself. Correllians believe that physical evolution, and that the everything that exists has a spirit future will always be better than the and can be said to be alive at either past. We believe that the role of the a physical or a spiritual level - and spiritual person is not merely to most often both. This applies not improve themselves but also to

work to access are described as the off into many which in turn split off lives, and will experience but obviously this can be abused, “Higher Self” or the “Oversoul”. The into many more, which further split successively more complex forms of and so the corollary of “Harm None” Higher Self encompasses the into countless myriad forms. life after completing their last human is a wise and necessary addition. Astral, SouElar,IMGonaHdicT, and Divine NINE incarnations. SIX ELEVEN levels of our being. Magic is the art Correllians hold that Fortune or Correllians understand the phrase of accessing and using these higher Karma is the mechanism by which We believe that as the Soul “Harm None” in the Wiccan Rede to levels of our being, from which what the lessons of incarnation are experiences its many incarnations refer to the ordinary meaning of we perceive as reality is created learned. We believe that Karma is its awareness moves through the “Harm” as it is commonly and from which it can be affected. formed through attachment to ideas, Seven Planes. The Seven Planes understood in conversation, and not emotions, or situations. Such are the , the to any expanded interpretation. So if The Seven Planes and all that are attachments are often formed Emotional Plane, the , a given act would not be considered in them are emanations of Deity, through traumatic experiences, and the , the Soular Plane, “Harm” in everyday conversation, it whose manifestations become more pull us back to similar experiences the , and the Divine is not “Harm” as defined by the and more numerous as we move through many lives until we learn Plane. The idea of the Seven Wiccan Rede. Thus the Wiccan from the where all is the lessons these experiences hold. Planes is one way of understanding Rede prohibits unprovoked or one to the Physical Plane where This idea is expressed in the so- successive levels of incarnation. egregious damage, but does not forms of life are countless. The called “Law of Three” which holds This same idea can also be prohibit things like self-defense. process by which the manifestations that everything we do comes back expressed through other of Deity multiply through the Seven to us multiple times. This doesn’t archetypes, such as the Nine Correllians place a high value on Planes resembles forms found in mean that everything comes back to Worlds or the Tree of Life. As Virtue, or “Right Action”. Correllians nature, such as tree limbs or roots, us exactly three times, but rather humans we are generally at the understand all qualities as existing rivers, etc, where a single line splits that things comes back as many level of the Mental Plane, but are in a continuum stretching from too