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So as it is Friday, John Beckett's newsletter comes to my email and I read through it. 2 of the blog posts he has linked are related:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett/2018/01/integrity-complicated-breaking-promise.html

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/starandsnake/2022/11/rethinking-initiatory-oaths/

After reading through them I got to thinking, why don't we consider oaths all that important, but promises are sacred? And, as an aside, "oathbreakers" are an edgy kind of "cool".

One thing I realized, Brandy Williams points out in her article that oaths probably stopped being taken so seriously after people broke them and nothing happened. No divine retribution, no loss of magic, no sky falling, nothing. So they stopped being so worried about the consequences, because there were none. Even the most Israel Regardie got was an outrage from the members of the Golden Dawn.

Beckett and Williams also draw the same comparison of an oath being like a contract, an unwritten one mayhap, between you, and the egregore of the group or the spirits/Godds in charge of the tradition. What does a contract breach depend on? Consequences from the authority of law upholding it. So when you break an oath (a type of contract), and nothing happens, who is upholding the law? It seems as though no one is. The group could certainly throw some hexes your way if they feel so violated, and a powerful enough spirit maybe if the breach was serious enough to warrant it, but the fact remains that there are little to no affects when an oath is breached. So we no longer take them seriously.

Now a pinky promise on the other hand, that is solely upheld by you, the other party, and your sense of guilt or shame. A vow could also be included here, a promise of something based upon your sense of honor. These are not really contracts, there is no outside authority that will punish you if you break your promise, they depend solely on the will of the parties involved, and their sense(s) of honor/duty/shame. Have you ever made a promise to a 5 year old and broken it? Their look of absolute betrayal can cut even the most hardend heart down to pieces, because they expected the best of you, and now you have introduced them to the worst side of humanity, and you have to bear the shame and dissapointment of that; carrying that knowledge with you for the rest of your life.

My point is, an oath is not dependent on you to carry it out to its fullest extent. An integrous person will do their best to honor their end of the contract, and if circumstances change and amends or dissolvement needs to be made, there are ways to do so. But unlike a legal contract, a breach of oath has seemingly no real consequences besides whatever your own sense of guilt about it is. But a promise, or a vow, or a solemn swearing, is solely dependent on you to uphold it. If you break it, your honor and reputation are tarnished, and you have to live with less trust from those around you who know about it, a loss of trust in yourself, and whatever your own sense of shame about it is. An oath is legal, a promise is societal.

So yeah, that's where I am at currently with this this fine morning/afternoon. What do y'all think?

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