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October 2012

October 22, 2012

Before the Gardnerians: Four More Precursors

The Hollywood Coven The Hollywood Coven was founded in 1967 by E. Tanssan of Hollywood,...

October 21, 2012

The Antinomian Nature of the Craft Movement

I had been planning to post next or soon a blog about Ozark Witchcraft, but...

October 20, 2012

Before the Gardnerians: Rhea W. and the Feri Tradition

J. Gordon Melton's files, in the library of the University of California at Santa Barbara,...

October 18, 2012

Before the Gardnerians: The Fellowship of the Four Jewels and the Church of Aphrodite

One day in about 1971, Larry and Catherine, two of the founding members of...

October 13, 2012

Before the Gardnerians: Introducing the Magus, Part III

In his travels, Hansen encountered more Traditional Witches than probably anyone else had in the...

October 12, 2012

Before the Gardnerians: Introducing the Magus, Part II

In his autobiographic essay, Hansen relates that in about 1955, through a series of “coincidences”...

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,...

October 07, 2012

Today Only! The Secret of the Eleusinian Mysteries

Boedromion 22 The central event in the Mysteries is the night-long ritual in the Telesterion,...

October 06, 2012

Boedromion 21: Preliminary Initiations Continue

On the day of the 20th and on through the 21st, the mustai are taken...

October 05, 2012

Boedromion 20: First Day of the Initiations

At sunset, when the next day begins, torches are lit, and because the Greeks used...

October 04, 2012

Boedromion 19: The Procession to Eleusis

Early in the day the mustai, the Eleusinian officials, and all others gather in the...

October 02, 2012

Boedromion 18 and More about Mary

The mustai remain indoors, preparing the Kykeon, "mixture," a tea of barley and mint, and...

October 01, 2012

Boedromion 17 and Songs from “The Wedding Guests”

Boedromion 17: A sow is officially sacrificed to the Two Goddesses in their temple in Athens. ...

September 2012

September 30, 2012

Boedromion 16: Haladay mustai!

Boedromion 16, the sixth day of Full Moon and the second day of the Mysreries,...

September 29, 2012

Several Mysteries: Boedromion 14/15 and More Argument about “The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife”

Professor Robert Mattheisen has again sent me a link concerning the controversy about the papyrus...

September 28, 2012

Boedromion 13 and Other Stuff

Today preparations for the Eleusinian Mysteries begin. A troop of epheboi, essentially an honor guard...

September 26, 2012

A Preview and Some Poems

I'm working on a long post about the fragment of papayrus, announced by Professor Karen...

September 21, 2012

Mabon and the City Beneath the Sea, Part II

One of the most peculiar features of Stonehenge is a small circle of holes tangential...

September 20, 2012

The Month of the Mysteries

Today, in the Athenian calendar, was the fifth day of the month of Boedromion, the...

September 17, 2012

Mabon and the City Beneath the Sea, Part I

There is a city under the North sea. It was the center of European civilization...

September 08, 2012

A Typology of Pagan Groups

Given the commonality of the basic Gardnerian liturgical pattern, it is useful to propose a...

September 07, 2012

Songs for the Book of Shadows[1]

I. Conjuration of the Charging Oil I conjure salt for savor, I conjure oil for...

September 04, 2012

The Fascinations of Gnosticism, Part IV: The Gospel According toMary

A copy of this document had been in a library since late in the nineteenth...

September 03, 2012

The Fascinations of Gnosticism, Part III

Now it’s time to let you see some of the most interesting and easiest to...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

The Fascinations of Gnosticism, Part II

I hope you were able to hang with the personal history in Part I. It’s...

August 28, 2012

The Fascinations of Gnosticism, Part I

As I recall, I first read about the existence of Gnosticism in about 1971 or...

August 26, 2012

Four Pagan Poems

In a Barber's Chair[1] "Before me and, I know, behind Tunnels the mirrored mirror...

August 22, 2012

“Mary Has Chosen the Better Vocation. Do Not Take It Away from Her.”

One problem for a Catholic, even an ethnic Catholic like me, is that getting a Ph.D. tends...

August 21, 2012

Turning Point, Part III

[This is Part III of the first chapter of my autobiography. You do need to...

August 20, 2012

Turning Point, Part II

[This continues the first chapter of my autobiography. If you have not read the first...

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