Ask a Christian Witch: Redeeming the Evangelical Egregore, Kitchen Witch Struggles, and Demonic Possession

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Now for all this good conversation!

Will the New Christian Witch Organization Have In-Person Meet and Greets?

Do you think that The Christian Witch group would ever have a meet and greet? —Jessica

Hey, Jessica!

Good question! As for right now, there'd be some serious costs for all of us to get together in one spot since we're all over the country—but running events is something that we definitely need to talk about.

And for folks who are wondering what Jessica's talking about: Hannah, Lina, Mimi, and I are all working to figure out how to make a bona fide organization for Christian Witches! From online spaces to fundraising for the community, we're hoping to begin building the first actual, official ministry for Christian Witches, with interfaith space and weekly sermons/Bible studies and all such things like that! It takes a while to do all that official stuff like bylaws and everything else, though, so as we have more information about it, we'll talk more.

Who Can Contribute to the New Christian Witch Organization?

A few days ago, you posted a TikTok discussing how you and several other Christian Witches were thinking about starting a Christian Witch organization of some kind, and that it was in very early stages. If we have skills that could be useful and would like to offer them to this organization as it ramps up, what would be the best way to do so? —Anonymous

Hi!

Eventually, we'll have an open space online for folks to gather. We'll be looking for mods and other roles as we go, so once it's off the ground, definitely come join and see what it's about! (Granted, again, this isn't so simple as a Discord server, even though that'll be part of it. We have to start playing with the Government™, and that... you know how that goes. We at least have a name and a logo and a solid idea of what we're doing, so there's that!)

How Can a Kitchen Witch in a Rut Keep Practicing?

Hi Sara,

Do you have any tips for a kitchen witch stuck in a cooking rut? I’m a big fan of Dinner Made Magic and love cooking seasonally with local produce, but lately—ugh—it’s all started to feel like a chore. And I hate that! I’m blaming it on the peak of our busy season (I work in Higher Ed… if you know, you know!).

Any suggestions, inspiration, or recipe ideas would be greatly appreciated! —Melissa

Hi, Melissa!

Oh, man. Listen, between the heat wave and everything else, I don't want to cook either just on principle. And given I'm about to teach a couple summer classes... yep. I get you!

When it comes to the cooking feeling like a chore, it's also important to remember that you don't have to cook a meal for the magic to be available. Sometimes I just make a wrap or something, but I'll use Greek yogurt instead of sour cream and sprinkle all kinds of seasonings in there: garlic, onion, oregano, you name it. Takes five minutes and still has a lot of magical potential depending on what you use! Salads or salad kits you can grab also have all kinds of easy stuff to invoke in there, given it's just chopping a few things up and maybe heating up some chicken tenders or something for a crispy chicken salad.

Whenever I'm feeling really not into cooking, raw ingredients are always what saves me. The tomato doesn't need to be cooked to still help me focus on love and all that stuff; it just has to exist. A snack of an orange and some nuts or something still has potential. And if push comes to shove, honestly, fuck it: get yourself a pizza and invoke the tomato in the sauce, the wheat in the crust, and whatever qualities your favorite toppings have (onions, peppers, ham, it's all got good magical potential). It's okay to take a break from cooking and focus on other things; the magic is still definitely there!

How Do I Reconnect with God After Time Away?

I ask these with utmost respect for your practice and purely with the intention of seeking advice, as these questions are what has made me hesitant to practice Christian witchcraft myself despite my great interest in it. How do you ensure that it is God or Jesus answering your questions via prayer, tarot, etc and not something pretending to be them? How do you know Christian witchcraft is the path God wants you to follow and not the Adversary skewing with the "truth" and trying to draw you away from God? —Anonymous

Hey, there!

So, this is probably not the answer you want to hear, but the truth is that there's no surefire way to know 100% that any entity you're talking to is who they say they are. It's not like there's a passport check before they enter your space. However, when you cross reference your spirit team with their source material often, and you get a feel for their energy and learn to distinguish it from another's energy, and you pay attention to the growth you get from working with them over time, you can tell that you're speaking to the same entity over and over, and then you can build trust with that entity.

I say there's no 100% way of knowing, and this is true. But I still know I'm talking to God because:

1. What He says and how He counsels me lines up with how He's done so with prophets and other people in the Old and New Testament (sometimes it's hey you have free will and know what I told you; make your own choice and other times it's shut up; you need to get moving on XYZ so don't argue with Me for a minute and just go) you know?

2. His energy feels radically and undeniably different from any spirit I've encountered, and it feels not just good, but mind-clearing; it's a type of golden radiance that lights up the body and soul and stills the mind of its worries until all that's left is level headed focus.

3. The spiritual fruits I've gained since listening more closely and directly to God via prayer, tarot, etc. are undeniable. While I'm still no perfect person and never will be, it's so much easier to move through the world in peace and reach my hand out to other people in need. I've become a radically better person for it, even if I still suck sometimes and still make mistakes.

If you're talking to God, and this entity acts like, feels like, talks like, and encourages you like God, then it's probably God, y'know? And I also operate on trust as well: if I'm calling to God, why would He let anyone but Himself answer? Sure, these tests exist and are important to do, but your first step to building any relationship is trust.

How Do You Reconcile Demons in Your Practice?

Hi Sara! I’m just curious how you reconcile including demons and Lucifer in particular in your Christian Witchcraft practice! Thanks for your time in answering my question. —Anonymous

Hey!

Honestly, fair question. It is really funny when people start fear mongering about witchcraft having anything to do with demons inherently, because this isn't true, but... I do in fact talk to the demons of the Ars Goetia and Lucifer on top of the angels and God. So. Oops.

But really, the Ars Goetia specifically have been a part of western Christian occultism for a hot minute. Christian occultists are the ones that made up the grimoires full of their names and what they do for practitioners, and Christian and Jewish occultists both have King Solomon to point to as an example of God giving people the ability to get demons to do stuff you want, anyway (as King Solomon managed to coerce King Asmodeus into building an entire temple of God with his demon powers thanks to a ring that God Himself gave to King Solomon). That's where the concept of Solomonic magic comes from to begin with.

However, the way I work with demons isn't quite like that. I prefer not to trap them in a bronze sphere and call their corresponding angel in to bully them into submission; that feels a little mean and unnecessary. (And yes, in this system, there are 72 angels to match the 72 demons, which is interesting.) Rather, I just talk to them and give them a little something to thank them for their time, like I would any person I invited over or asked for a favor. Just because they have an opposing viewpoint from angels and solve problems differently, doesn't mean they don't have valuable wisdom to share. In fact, it's because of that, that they do. Kind of like that old trope of having a little angel and devil on your shoulder, you know?

With all things comes balance. The heavenly virtues can be just as poisonous as the deadly sins if you don't know when it's time to show patience or righteous anger, when it's time to eat and when it's time to fast. I've learned that a lot of times, the angels and demons are saying more or less the same things, just with different attitudes about what they're saying and different approaches to accomplishing things. The angels and demons themselves work together far more than people imagine, as I've come to learn by talking to both.

How Do You Avoid Demonic Possession?

I recently learned that according to the Catholic church, one can make themselves vulnerable to demonic influence by associating with occultism, witchcraft, and things like tarot and such, saying it is a violation of the first commandment by looking to other sources for spiritual information instead of coming to God directly. How do you combat this and make sure your practice remains under God's influence and protection, and not that of something else? —Anonymous

Hello!

So, for one thing, I'm not Catholic anymore and don't really give a damn what the Catholic church has to say about... pretty much anything. I find that a lot of the stuff in their catechism isn't even accurate, too, because if you know the Bible well enough, some of their stuff just doesn't make any sense and shows a whole lot of assumptions and prejudices and general lack of up-to-date Biblical understanding from whoever the hell wrote those answers out.

And that's what's happening here. There are a whole lot of assumptions about tarot and occultism going on that don't make any sense. For there to be a violation of the first commandment by seeking spirits outside God, there first has to be a spirit outside God, which just having a tarot deck does not magically conjure. I agree that Christians should go to God for their questions, but that's... literally what I'm doing when I'm using the tarot cards. They're just a tool for talking to Him. This idea is like saying "But if you're using a phone to talk to someone, you're relying on that phone instead of the person you're talking to!" Like, what? Makes no sense to me when people dog on tarot.

Witchcraft is the same thing. My spells look like mini, one-man sermons. I'm leading a congregation of herbs, stones, and what-have-you to come together and offer up our prayers and energy in return for God's attention and the channeling down of His miracles. Not really much by way of contacting other spirits there. And occultism is just the study of these things.

Any spirits I talk to outside of God are ones He led me to Himself, like angels, Saints, or even demons sometimes, save for my Where the Gods Left Off and When Angels & Demons Collude books. But in those books, I'm just chatting with other spirits the way I would another person. Are we not allowed to talk to people, either, or discuss ideas and potential choices with them? All of us are spirits, too, just currently wearing a meat suit. God is the ultimate Guide, but that doesn't mean we aren't all in community together, whether we are spirits with bodies or spirits without them.

So, in essence: because God is my God, God is the one directing my practice and my growth. I haven't worried about stuff like demonic possession or whatever since I was a teenager just starting to learn about these things. It doesn't even cross my mind anymore.

How Do I Connect with God?

Why is God silent to me when I pray? Why don't I feel anything? I feel awkward and don't know how to connect with him. He's given me spiritual, supernatural experiences and I have been disconnecting more from the evangelical egregore. I am not a witch, by the way, but open to figuring out how I can connect with God because I have had this problem for years. —Anonymous

Hi!

I get that. This feels like it could be a few things: either a dark night of the senses or dark night of the soul (which are very different, the former being when one's senses are dulled and nothing really sticks out or seems interesting anymore except for maybe some spiritual things, and the latter being when it feels like God just straight up disappeared and abandoned you into a really dark and terrible time that you aren't sure you'll get through without Him), or just a simple case of you not having built a language with God.

If it's any kind of dark night, the only way out is through. You just have to keep at it and trust that God is there, that He hears you, and that this is a time of growth in your faith: a test of resilience and stubbornness, if you will, and a time of seeking. It sucks, but that's the only thing to do, really: wait it out (and make sure you don't hit a despair spiral, which is easy to do).

If it's an issue of language, I ask you: what are you looking for God's response to look like? You mention you've had spiritual experiences before; are you expecting every time God speaks to be so obvious and unmistakable? It's usually much quieter than that. You may not be used to that, especially if you're disconnecting from the egregore, because that thing keeps you hooked by flooding you with experiences that validate you and keep you dependent on it. God is much different than His fakers and doesn't typically get so bombastic to dazzle you like that; God is about deep, intimate, and quiet presence more often than not. If you feel awkward, it may be because you're not used to the fact that God demands to see all of you: not just the parts you've manicured to fit a standard in a church run by the egregore, but every mangled and broken and rusty part, too. That can be really uncomfortable if your former church has made you live behind a mask and put on a picture of perfect piety for a long time.

I'm at the point in my walk with God where I am very comfortable just rolling up and saying "Dude. What the fuck." And then gesturing vaguely at everything. I'll have whole ass hissy fits while God is dead silent, and then two minutes later, will be like "okay, I know it's not that bad, you're right" and then the messages will start flowing through the tarot again. Like. Treat Him less like some vast and distant Thing in the cosmos and more like a friend/companion/mentor/creator/shepherd and the relationship will start feeling a lot more organic. Just let yourself feel the love and awe for God, the love and guidance of God, all with no expectations or shame, and it'll all fall into place.

How Do All Paths Actually Lead to God?

You say that all paths lead to God, but I just don't understand how that applies to my path. I'm an intermediate Pop Culture Pagan and I've contacted Jesus a few times, but I'm not interested in Christianity or God, the Father. How does my path lead to the divine, if my spirits were made by the Mundane? Does my occult research lead me to enlightenment or something? Spiritual growth? —Anonymous

Hello!

So, funnily enough, it was when I talked to the egregore of Nayru from Legend of Zelda (one of the many interviews in When Angels & Demons Collude) that I got smacked in the face with gnosis that had me questioning everything—because this goddess that we apparently made still had the same pieces of wisdom of any other spirit of wisdom or law or justice I'd ever talked to. She was so fully aware that she was made, and yet also that she was one of three Makers in her respective world. It made me think that these concepts—wisdom, love, courage, justice, power, thunder, etc.—are things so ingrained in us through our contact with Divinity that they flow down into what we create, too, and become yet more mirrors for us to understand Divinity with. They make up the fabric of our universe, and as we are part of the universe, it's only natural that they would flow through us and into what we make, too.

When you encounter Divinity, it is Divinity, no matter if you're encountering it in the wilderness Divinity created or the sandbox we humans created. Even the names of God (Yahweh) and Jesus are simply doorways to connect to the infinite, ineffable thing we understand as Divinity; people focus far too much on individual names like Thor and Nayru and Zeus and Jesus and not on the fact that we will never truly see all of the Source all at once. For me, God is my source. The doorway of Yahweh (or Elohim)/Jesus/Holy Spirit is the way I come to connect with that source in a way other gods don't help me access because my soul didn't come out those doors to begin with; those other gods didn't make me or shape me the way this God did, and so this God is my ultimate God: my door to the Infinite.

If your pop culture spirits help you access this concept of Divinity, in its full and infinite form, and they help you develop yourself and gain good spiritual hygiene, good spiritual fruits, then who am I (and who is anyone else) to say anything about it?

Can the Evangelical Egregore be Redeemed?

I had an experience i need the advice of someone who has encountered the Evangelical Egregore, as well as someone who has love and respect for Big J and His Dad. Since you have been flooding my For You page [on TikTok] lately, I figured i would ask: is it possible to redeem the Egregor? It isn't fallen; it isn't an earthly spirit. It is a thoughtform. And genuinely wants to be like Jesus. Maybe I am being naively hopeful, but if we could redeem, return to source, would its influence not vanish? —Helsmeadmakr

Hi!

Oh, boy. That's an interesting question. It's a way I've felt about the Dragon before meeting it, and further back, it's how I felt about "the devil" too before realizing Lucifer/Satan's roles and functions (and that they're not really what people say they are). When it comes to any kind of egregores, too, I can say that some egregores absolutely do know they're egregores (like Santa Claus and Dedek Mraz, both of which pop up in When Angels & Demons Collude). After also encountering this Evangelical Egregore, though, and based on your experience you shared past this question, I don't necessarily know that this thing wants to be redeemed. I don't know if it recognizes anything to be redeemed for.

You mentioned that after confronting it, it ran off. That, to me, is a sign that it knew it couldn't get anything from you or break you down. When I talked to this thing and confronted it like that, it refused to take responsibility for the bad things going on in its name. When I saw it outside what it wanted me to see it as, I saw a big bug with a little toy Jesus hanging off it like an angler fish's little light. I don't think this thing is interested in anything else than feeding, like an animal, and I don't think it wanted anything other than to get you away from its food (your mother-in-law). But then again, who knows? Maybe I'm just being uncharitable, and this thing has actually fooled itself into thinking it's Jesus to the point that it doesn't realize what it's doing to people.

In which, redemption could only start if your one voice could outweigh the hundreds of thousands of voices that continuously fill this thing's belly with praise, adoration, and energy. It's starting to squirm now because it's getting a great influx of hate as much as love, what with ex-vangelicals throwing all their ire into it like they're throwing shit into a pot of soup, but it's still got more than enough to subsist on that I don't see it needing to change any time soon, unfortunately.

How Can a Christian Practice Witchcraft?

I was wondering how it is possible for a Christian to practice witchcraft since the Bible condemns it explicitly? I ask this with genuine curiosity as a Christian myself. —Anonymous

Hello!

This is kind of a big question, not gonna lie. Our book, Discovering Christian Witchcraft, answers it in full, but to give a really short answer:

The Bible doesn't condemn it explicitly. It condemns specific types of magic explicitly (such as poisoning others, cursing others for no real reason, deceiving others, or trying to use other spirits and stuff like clouds as spiritual cheat codes to know when to plant/make money/etc.), and we don't do those. A good example of what some Bible verses against magic are actually talking about is in my blog post on Deuteronomy 18:10-12 if you want to check that out.

What mainstream society calls magic today, though, is just the hands-on practice of religion, and it's what Christians have always done (and often, ironically, to protect against witches). It's just actually using one's spiritual powers that God Himself gave us. Once you realize that, and that Christians have always been doing it, and that the witchcraft of today is nothing like the witchcraft mentioned in the Bible (for the most part; it depends on the witch), you realize that being a Christian Witch is really just being a Christian Mystic with arts and crafts.

Why Does Jesus's Appearance Change?

In the interviews with the deities, with the evangelical egregore, you mention Jesus had blue/green eyes but in the interview with Jesus it was more of a honey/brown color? I guess he would be able to appear as desired, but is there a significance to this? —Rae

Hi, Rae!

This is a great question, and the answer is simple: it's because sometimes I need some help visualizing Jesus because my focus ain't shit on certain days, and so I'll end up defaulting to the painting "Prince of Peace" by Akiane because, as far as I'm concerned, that painting is the most accurate depiction of Jesus I've ever seen anyone draw. I love the color of Jesus's eyes in that painting, the texture of his hair, etc.; it looks so real and so plausible, you know? And to me, that bright blue-green eye color is a sign of spiritual clarity, so I guess that's also why sometimes Jesus is more honey-brown in the eyes (a golden color that makes me feel like He's around to just relax and talk and spend time with me) and sometimes He's got that blue-green (a sign He's serious and there to focus on a task at hand with me). But I hold that image in my head if I'm having trouble with visualization for whatever reason (like if I'm tired or frazzled), especially to stave off the hardcore White Jesus™ that is the egregore's main calling card to begin with.

Sometimes Jesus also appears to me looking more like the Magician in Kat Black's Golden Tarot, with the longer brown hair and red robes, a more medieval-style Jesus, and I know that's not how He really looked because... it's very obviously just a drawing. I'll ask to see Him properly if He's coming through like that, though given that image is clearly based off others of Him and is associated with His more magical/enlightened/dual nature, He may be trying to get me to pay attention to something specific about that. Sometimes He appears with really wooly hair and a rougher beard and those honey-brown eyes, like how I saw Him in our first official sit-down interview. He's always wearing red, though, no matter what, which makes sense, since that's the color associated with the Holy Spirit's fire.

At the end of the day, I never saw Jesus in the flesh 2000 years ago. I have no idea what He really looked like, only what He might've looked like. And like any other no-longer-physical-entity, Jesus can change His appearance to communicate certain things to me in small, discreet ways. Many have done that before. Little clues like a change in eye color or a change in clothing can tell me many things, whether about the way the spirit is feeling/what they're trying to express or even where I am mentally that day. It's important to pay attention to those little details, and it's cool you caught this detail here!

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—Sara

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Sara Raztresen is a Slovene-American writer, screenwriter, and Christian witch. Her fantasy works draw heavily on the wisdom she gathers from her own personal and spiritual experience, and her spiritual practice borrows much of the whimsy and wonder that modern society has relegated to fairy-and-folktale. Her goal is to help people regain their spiritual footing and discover God through a new (yet old) lens of mysticism.

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