This is a blog just to introduce myself to the people here on the site.I am the Gravedigger. Digger for short. There are some that have already commented on the name, and for those of you that are curious, its an actual nickname I go by in the real world that I decided to use as an internet name. I do have a magical name, which I might share with others when I get to know each of you a bit better.My mother is a Pagan Witch from a long line of Witches, and in the old days they would have called her a 'Seer' as well. Try being a rebellious teenager with a woman like that for a mother. Its frustrating. My paternal Grandfather was both a Scotish Rite Freemason and a Rosicrucian Knight Templar. So occult views run long and deep in my family.For a while, I was living my life as a Fundamentalist Christian. Even to the point of being in one of their bible colleges. Which I was expelled from for telling one of the professors there that he coulld go to his own hell. Why would I say this? Eve in the Garden of Eden. According to Christians, she ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge.My question on this was: "Why are women in gerenal considered cursed because Eve wanted to learn? It wasn't that she wanted to be superior, because she shared the fruit with Adam. So why are women punished for this?"The answer shocked me."Digger, do you really want you wife to be equal with you?"Between my mother's strong views, and my Grandfather's teachings that women made just as good a warrior as men, the idea of equality had never been a question for me.So now, I follow a path that is both Pagan and Hermetic. My Pagan side is somewhat general, but due to preference, I tend to enjoy what most people would call "Darkness and Shadows." My Hermetic side deals primarily with Spiritual Alchemy. Alchemy is one of those studies that requires a person use a certain amount of logic, and I base my own logic on the principle of "As Above, So Below". Because of the combination of Pagan with Spiritual Alchemy/Hermetics,  I reject the concept of good vs.evil. I also reject the ideas of "Sin", "Satan", "Hell", and that the person known as "Jesus" was any kind of God or "Ascended Master".The end result is a form of magic that says:"If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and flies like a duck, stop calling it a chicken."That's about it for now. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask, but I'm reserving the right to answer them in PM.Peace.