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eBook Category: Spiritual/Religion
eBook Description: If you want to set up a personal altar in your home, there are many ways to do so. Here are a few suggestions.

eBook Publisher: Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust, Published: Green Egg, 1989
Fictionwise Release Date: May 2008

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Almost everyone in what many Pagans and Neo-Pagans call the Craft--which I and mine prefer to call the Path--knows that his/her transition from dilettante and apprentice to serious student comes when they are willing to commit themselves to having and maintaining, in their domicile, a permanent altar to that facet of the Mysteries which he/she has chosen as his/her own. (This double pronoun nonsense is getting too much for me. As a woman, I am one half of mankind, and therefore I feel that male pronouns can include me, too. When I think what we lady writers went through to get rid of such designations as poetess and authoress and be referred to simply as poets and authors, I am appalled when I see a lady chairman demanding to be called a chairwoman, or, even more barbarous, a chairperson.)

To return to our muttons--or, rather, our altars. There have been times when I have brought this up, and the budding priest or priestess will say to me, "Keep a Temple in my house? I don't have the room."

This, of course, is nonsense and deserves no answer other than the old cliché, "Where there's a will, there's a way." I can imagine no one except the Army private in boot camp, whose living space consists of a cot or bunk, and whose personal possessions are all kept in a footlocker, open to inspection by his sergeant, who would be completely incapable of keeping the tiniest of altars. (And I knew one of those who kept his personal altar in a folding stationary case, with his paraphernalia symbolically suggested by careful drawings of his Gods and all tucked up inside, which he could open for a private moment or two of his devotions.)

It is only those affluent householders who have inherited, or acquired, an enormous ancestral mansion, who can be reasonably expected to devote an entire room to a household Temple. For everyone else, a table, folding desk or bureau makes an excellent altar. It can be kept in a small corner of the bedroom, a niche in a sewing room, a convenient closet, or what have you.