(June 16, 2018 at 6:10 pm)*Deidre* Wrote:(June 16, 2018 at 6:08 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I actually have two books from Wicca I have to read at my house. I bought them about 8 months ago, never read them.
You should read them, and just learn. Just because you read other books outside of your own beliefs, doesn't mean you are a follower of said beliefs. It's good to educate yourself on others' beliefs.
I am probably more familiar with the Neopaganism, then Shiite Islam or Hadiths of Ahullbayt (as) to be honest. I spent a lot of time reading, and to be honest, the Quranic perspectives to their perspective and the arguments against their ways, to me are solid reasons not to go this picking and choosing path, but rather to submit to God's light and name.
If we didn't hold on to his name/face or followed people without proof to the claim, we deserve every destruction to our souls in this world and the next.
You are cross-roads *Deidre*, this is very enticing learning abilities and all that, it can be fun, but it can lead to loss, and at this point you don't know.
And there is no harm in reading any book, but there is harm in relying and listening and giving ear to hidden (Jinn) and manifest (humans) creatures of God for all you know, are not guided, and are not truthful.
If you are going to listen one way, listen to arguments the other way.
It can be cool learning all properties of all thing spiritually, it could be beneficial, or if not ready, it can be harmful to us, because we begin to misuse skills we weren't meant to open up without a guidance from a Guide from God and reliance on God's rope in this regard becomes key.
I caution you with the same caution to myself.