Witch Willows WanderingsMove Over Warthogs!
December 2nd 2006 04:43
Yet Another Online Magick School
It's all about the money
The school is for adults 18 and older only and there is a $30.00 per 6 month registration fee. Each course you choose will include 2 tests so you can see how much you have learned. Each course has 8 lessons and also suggest extra magickal workings, recommended reading, and even require reading at times. You learn at your own pace and can take the courses as often as you like, as well as the tests.
If you want to earn something they call a “Certificate of Cunning Craft”, then you have to write a 500 word summary of at least 3 cunning course subject areas. Once submitted, your essay gets perused by what they call a “Seminary Divine” for a nominal fee of $9.00. In order to be awarded the certificate you have to get at least 80% on the tests and summary. Each time you write or re-write an essay it’s another 9 bucks.
You can also work to earn your “Certificate of Witchery”. Once you write a 5,000 word essay on 3 topics, it works the same way as with the “certificate”, only the fee is $35. According to their website they will eventually be offering a “Certificate of Dragonry”. Now get this: Their goal is for them to become a “full-fledged” Pagan seminary, so they can offer an actual Bachelors of Divinity and Masters of Divinity. That’s interesting. Heck, why not? Christian colleges make money hand over fist by offering the same kind of degree. I wonder who would get hired first, the Pagan school graduate or the Christian school graduate. And so the battle wages on, never to end!
So, this was rather…umm…interesting, to say the least. Hey, if you feel the need to give someone money to teach you the fine art of Pagan beliefs then so be it. I think they may be trying to target the young and naïve and the ignorant. Seriously…30 bucks for 6 months and then you have to pay them to read your essays if you want their certificates. I’m not sure what the certificates would get you, but who knows…maybe a discount from Llewellyn books. I for one don’t see the point of having to pay someone else money to read something I write. Nor do I understand the concept of someone you really don’t know teaching you the so called “ways” of the Pagans. Now not to put them down completely, I am sure some of the courses are really good and have great info that could be useful or eye-opening. BUT by them charging people these fees to learn Paganism, how are they any better than some of the Christian churches that rob their parishioners of all of the money in the name of “Jesus”? You know what churches I’m talking about…there is a HUGE one here in Ohio called World Harvest. The facility looks like a city itself and they have such things as a college and places to live. All of that is paid for by the money the church goers give every Sunday.
So come on, let’s not take 2 steps back in our fight to be seen as equals in the religious race. Why come up with silly names for schools and courses and charge money for learning a belief system? If they were donating all of the money to charities and so forth then it may be okay. But making money off people who don’t really know better? Come on! And we all know that is who will be sending them the checks every 6 months.
If you really want to see the website for yourself, go to: Oestara Seminary of Magick
Blessed Be
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