The Godhead and Its Divisions

In Wicca and NeoWicca, the Great Creator (Dryghten, or “The All”, depending on whether you view them as the same being; henceforth simply referred to as Deity or the Divine) is neither male nor female in gender or sex. Instead, NeoWicca views the Creator as the union of both ... Or, more correctly, both are themselves the union of The Creator itself. What follows, then, is best described as a semi-Hylozoistic, Bitheistic form of Pantheism.

To summarize: Deity and the Universe are one and the same; it is greater than, and yet is creation simultaneously. Logically following from that, Deity is therefore all-encompassing, and immanent within all things, by its very nature as the Universe.

A portion of it- a Spark of Divinity- manifests within ourselves, and manifests within all of nature as well. The Divine is also active in everything, as manifested … It is the force that lights the stars and brings the flowers to birth; the very breath of life and spark of creation itself. This is the nature of universality: There is nothing that isn’t of the Divine, and there is nothing of which the Divine isn’t.

However, we as Humans are not whole ourselves. Each of us are inherently fragmented by our very nature as non-Divine entities, despite each of us carrying within us a small spark of the Great Divine. As naturally fragmented and imperfect creatures, then, we therefore cannot fully understand the whole- and so the whole must be consubstantially divided before us.

The first logical division of Deity is into the fundamental Humanic Polarity- or what can be understood as the humanic binary concepts of ‘Male’ and ‘Female’. Logically following that are other divisions of the Deity into additional polarities (Light / Dark; Sun / Moon; Wet / Dry; and so on).

Categorizing things into specific and wholly artificial binaries such as ‘Male / Female’, however, has generated much political debate over recent decades as science has disproven much of what our ancestors thought they knew about sex and gender based on their observation. But it is important to establish that this polaric model is not to the explicit exclusion or denial of all other modalities or spectrums. It’s quite the opposite.

The binaric or dualistic model is only one way in which The Divine may come to be understood- and is it explicitly the way through which the NeoWiccan comes to understand them. Yet even through this modality, each of these polarities is not a reality, nor a total factual statement about the complete Universal model. They are, rather, merely representations of observable extremes of the natural Earth Cycle which are most frequently relevant to (and most easily identifiable by) Human Beings as the creatures practicing the faith.

No deity has an actual human sex, gender, or orientation. However, as they are inherently observed and understood by us as some human-like manifestations, they will have expressions and ways assigned to them by our own ideas and by the mechanisms that we follow.

In reality, the mask of this split, tri-Divine representation itself presents as a central face (Deity) looking forward, with one face looking to each side (the Polarities). Whenever one of the polar faces moves into Immanence, the other two faces fade away temporarily. But these divisions are merely two halves of the whole, connected by their polarity- and by their source; without one, neither could exist at all, and neither could the spectrum between them which comprises the true whole.

Despite any consubstantial division into polaric forms, Deity itself is (and will forever continue to) exist beyond any true scope of Human sex and gender entirely. It contains all as the immanent creative force, but is itself formless, agender, all-gendered, and androgynous all at the same time; it is the Divine Hermaphrodite. The Divine Androgyne. The non-manifested being whose polarities are still wholly integrated within its primordial unity.

It is everything in between- and yet is nothing at all.