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Aidan Kelly: Including Paganism

2013-01-31T21:05:45-08:00

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Imagine Jesus Holding Hands with the Goddess

Last updated on: January 31, 2013 at 9:05 pm   By Aidan Kelly

One cannot talk about both Christianity and the Craft in the same breath IF if one defines them in such a way that they share no common ground at all. Read more

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2013-01-26T07:43:36-08:00

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A History of the Craft in America: California and Councils, 1967 to 1973, Part I

Last updated on: January 26, 2013 at 7:43 am   By Aidan Kelly

More history of the Craft in California, plus the OTO, a fraternal magickal order associated with Aleister Crowley, and the OTA, dedicated to the goddess Astarte. Read more

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Poke Runyon

2013-01-22T11:21:46-08:00

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Post-Doctoral Witchcraft (or something like that)

Last updated on: January 22, 2013 at 11:21 am   By Aidan Kelly

I am thinking about how to teach what I actually know, which is far more than just the Craft, although I would include the advanced but non-oathbound information I have about the Craft, and about religion in general, about spiritual progress, how to reinvent oneself. Read more

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2013-01-21T10:35:14-08:00

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Initiates to the Sea

Last updated on: January 21, 2013 at 10:35 am   By Aidan Kelly

"Initiates to the Sea" is perhaps the most significant poem I have ever written. It begins as a dirge for the child my second wife and I lost, who would have been my first child, then morphs into a meditation on the nature of our minds. Read more

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2013-01-06T14:03:12-08:00

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

Last updated on: January 6, 2013 at 2:03 pm   By Aidan Kelly

Alexandrian Tradition is, in terms of ritual, a minor variant on Gardnerian Witchcraft, although its adherents now far outnumber the orthodox Gardnerians. Read more

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2013-01-06T06:46:05-08:00

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

Last updated on: January 6, 2013 at 6:46 am   By Aidan Kelly

The New York Coven of Welsh Traditional Witches was founded about 1970 by Edmund Buczynski (1947-1989), Herman Slater (1938-1992), and Leo Martello (1930-2000). All three were among the first to publicly defend gay rights within the Pagan movement. Read more

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Witches International Craft Associates

2013-01-04T14:33:24-08:00

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

Last updated on: January 4, 2013 at 2:33 pm   By Aidan Kelly

The New England Coven of Traditionalist Witches was founded in North Haven, CT, in the late 1960s by Lady Gwen Thompson (Phyllis Healey, 1928-1986). Believing that not all who are born into a family tradition are destined to follow it, she began fostering students outside the family. Read more

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2013-01-03T20:35:22-08:00

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The Letter to Theophilus, Part III

Last updated on: January 3, 2013 at 8:35 pm   By Aidan Kelly

As followers of Kharpocrates, we celebrate our bodily pleasures, unlike the heretics, and teach our initiates to do the same. We are free to enjoy all the pleasures of life that are bestowed on us by the Lord and that the foolish heretics reject. Read more

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2013-01-03T07:10:53-08:00

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The Letter to Theophilus, Part II

Last updated on: January 3, 2013 at 7:10 am   By Aidan Kelly

Mark prayed to the Goddess Charis to drop her sacred blood into the cup that all may be inspired and empowered by it, saying, “May that Charis who is before all things, and who transcends all knowledge and speech, fill your inner being and multiply in you her own knowledge." Read more

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Saint Mark the Wonderworker

2013-01-03T07:10:26-08:00

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The Letter to Theophilus, Part I

Last updated on: January 3, 2013 at 7:10 am   By Aidan Kelly

My dear Theophilus, all the brothers and sisters send you greetings in the name of the Lord and the Lady. I will endeavor to answer your questions concerning the teachings of our founders and of all who have preserved the true mysteries of our faith. Read more

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