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March 2013

March 07, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: California and Councils, Part V, 1974-1975

As I mentioned, many important changes took place in 1973 within at least half a...

March 05, 2013

On the Nature of the Gods

The passion of the Gods is not a calm and boring bliss. It is a...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

A Dialogue of Angels

What existed before the beginning? “Before” and “beginning” are irrelevant. Time is not primordial, nor...

February 17, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: The Council of Earth Religions and the Green Egg Yellow Pages

[I apologize to my dedicated readers. It has been rough. I plan to resume posting...

February 02, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: California and Councils, Part III: The Council of Themis

As described in previous blogs, the attempt to create an umbrella, church-like organization for...

February 01, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: The Heartland in the Early 1970s

During the decade from the late 1960s to the late 1970s, at least half the...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: California and Councils, 1967-1973, Part II

More modern Craft history: Fred and Martha Adler, the Psychedelic Venus Church, the Church of...

January 26, 2013

Imagine Jesus Holding Hands with the Goddess

One cannot talk about both Christianity and the Craft in the same breath IF if...

January 21, 2013

Post-Doctoral Witchcraft (or something like that)

I am thinking about how to teach what I actually know, which is far more...

January 06, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: The BosWash Strip, Alexandrians and Others

Alexandrian Tradition is, in terms of ritual, a minor variant on Gardnerian Witchcraft, although its...

January 05, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: The Family Tree of the New England Coven of Traditionalist Witches, Part II

The New York Coven of Welsh Traditional Witches was founded about 1970 by Edmund Buczynski...

January 04, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: The Family Tree of the New England Coven of Traditionalist Witches, Part I

The New England Coven of Traditionalist Witches was founded in North Haven, CT, in the...

January 02, 2013

The Letter to Theophilus, Part II

Mark prayed to the Goddess Charis to drop her sacred blood into the cup that...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

The Letter to Theophilus, Part I

My dear Theophilus, all the brothers and sisters send you greetings in the name of...

December 21, 2012

A Brief History of the New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn, Part II

By February 1973 only five people had survived the year of training in the Spiral...

December 17, 2012

A Brief History of the New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn, Part I

Aidan Kelly gives a general overview of NROOGD to set the stage for explaining the...

December 16, 2012

Goddess Murder

My novel Goddess Murder is essentially a love story, about the romance between a college...

November 2012

November 09, 2012

To Remember Thomas DeLong, Who Wrote as Gwydion Pendderwen, On the Second (Now the Thirtieth) Anniversary Of His Going into Eternal Life

I remember the night I first met you On Bernal Heights, before we knew The...

October 2012

October 27, 2012

Joe Wilson, Part III: England

Wilson wanted to go to England to contact the many people he knew through his...

October 11, 2012

Before the Gardnerians: Introducing the Magus

[This begins the first chapter of my forthcoming A Tapestry of Witches: A History of...

October 08, 2012

Last Day of the Mysteries / Preview of a New History

Boedromion 23: The final events at Eleusis included the rite of the Plemochoai, top-shaped vases,...

August 2012

August 02, 2012

Jesus, No, but Joshua’s a Different Story

A Pagan Almanac for August 1 & 2, 2012 Lunar Cycle: August 1 -- Fourth...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

Survival or New Creation?

A Pagan Almanac for July 29-31, 2012 Lunar cycle: July 29, First day of the...

July 28, 2012

Looking for the Craft IV

A Pagan Almanac for July 27 and 28, 2012 Lunar Cycle: Ninth and tenth days...

July 26, 2012

Looking for the Craft III

A Pagan Almanac for July 24-26, 2012 Lunar Cycle: Sixth to eighth days of the...

July 22, 2012

Looking for the Craft, Part II

A Pagan Almanac: July 21, 2012 Lunar Cycle: Third day of the waxing Moon Rome:...

July 20, 2012

Looking for the Craft

______________________________________________________________________________________________________ A Pagan Almanac for July 20, 2012 Lunar Cycle: Second day of the waxing...

July 19, 2012

A Pagan Almanac: Day One

A Pagan Almanac for July 19, 2012 Lunar cycle: Day 1, first crescent Rome: The...

July 17, 2012

The Three-Dimensional Structure of the Pagan Movement

In writing about the history of the Craft, I have been often perplexed about how...

July 16, 2012

What Is a Witch?

I am not silly enough to suppose that everyone, or even a majority among Witches,...

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