by Colin A. Keller
The Five Mystic Secrets, by LaVeda Lewis High-Correll can be considered the founding philosophical statement of Modern Correllian Wicca. This Treatise was composed at a time in the late 1970’s/early 1980’s when the Correllian Nativist Tradition (a familial Tradition) transitioned to open public membership, and by the late 1990’s /early 2000’s would include a comprehensive Correllian Clergy Degree System, and a Internet based educational platform, Witch School International. With these two programs, the once familial nativist tradition became one of the fastest growing Wiccan traditions in the World.
“Grandmother’s Wisdom” is passed by storytelling around the Kitchen Table, telling stories around the campfire, or sharing a cold drink reclining in your favorite Rocking chair on the Front Porch. The Five Mystic Secrets is more than an earth based nativist philosophy; it is a prophetic teaching divined for a future family, the Modern Correllian tradition. More than a response to the Conservative Right movements of the 1980’s , the Secrets reflect personal “Wise Woman” ethics and philosophy, based on years of soul searching and personal reflection. The Five Mystic Secrets represents a theological and philosophical “bridge” of growth from family to worldwide tradition, in ideas easily understood and communicated in the framework of an oral storytelling tradition. The Secrets are the connecting document of growth, philosophies past on and reflections instilled in new hearts and minds of a soon to grow Wiccan Tradition. A look at the Divine, the Soul, freedom, life and knowledge, The Five Mystic Secrets reflects (at the time) an undiscovered and alternative worldview, very much foreign to conventional and mainstream religious thought of the time. Blv. LaVeda sits us all down at the Kitchen table and shares with us what she has learned and come to experience. This is the Magic of the Five Mystic secrets. Please share in this wisdom by reading and sharing in this most wonderful document, Blv. LaVeda Lewis-Highcorrell’s, The Five Mystic Secrets.