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2012-07-17T00:24:07-07:00

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The Three-Dimensional Structure of the Pagan Movement

Last updated on: July 17, 2012 at 12:24 am By Aidan Kelly

In writing about the history of the Craft, I have been often perplexed about how to tell a story in which everything is related to everything else, and it all seems to be happening at the same time. Iit took me quite a while to realize that an adequate description of the movement requires a three-dimensional map, much like a tapestry. The first dimension is chronological, describing how groups evolved and proliferated over time. This dimension includes description of the... Read more

Keepers of the Ancient Mysteries

2017-07-14T16:31:03-07:00

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What Is a Witch?

Last updated on: July 14, 2017 at 4:31 pm By Aidan Kelly

I am not silly enough to suppose that everyone, or even a majority among Witches, will agree with everything I will be saying here. However, I have been thinking about this question for quite a while, and I think that some systematic consideration of the issues involved can provide some clarity. Read more

2012-07-11T23:48:28-07:00

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Five Canticles of Wisdom

Last updated on: July 11, 2012 at 11:48 pm By Aidan Kelly

0 In the beginning, there is no beginning: There is only the Goddess, and Her name Is Everything-All-the-Same, and Fullness I When Her name is Wandering Wide, She danced on the waters. Before She turned upon the wind, The stars are Her daughters. She turns upon the elements A dance of celebration That to watery nothing gives A name and habitation. Her dancing turned upon the wind; The wind snake winds about Her, And this is how it all begins:... Read more

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2012-07-08T23:43:38-07:00

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Another Three Pagan Poems

Last updated on: July 8, 2012 at 11:43 pm By Aidan Kelly

Morgana at her Vanity (for Erif) Damp from the chastening water, She oils her skin, humming A wandrous tune that breaks, Then resumes, as her musing eye spies, Then dispells, each threat of a line In her face, in the polished brass mirror. She combs out her sea-raven hair With sharks’ fins, brushes With bristles of boars, Charcoals her eyebrows to arch and point, Powders her eyelids with sea-blue chalk, Rouges her nipples, lips, and nails Of hands and feet... Read more

2012-07-04T18:49:42-07:00

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Why the Craft Is an “In Your Face” Religion

Last updated on: July 4, 2012 at 6:49 pm By Aidan Kelly

Earlier today, on Charles Arnold’s e-group on Linkedin, someone expressed surprise that the fundamentalist Christians are attacking Pagans more and more viciously. I think such surprise can arise only from not understanding what Paganism is now all about. Most people, including Pagans, are not well-informed about their religion or about religion in general. However, the percentage of well-informed people in current Pagan religions, and especially in the Craft, is significantly higher than in many other faith communities. One cannot do... Read more

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2012-07-03T18:59:08-07:00

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Homage to Kropotkin

Last updated on: July 3, 2012 at 6:59 pm By Aidan Kelly

Whenever I get to teach a philosophy course, I think of a way to talk about Kropotkin, whom I consider to be vastly underappreciated. His work has saved millions of lives and shaped our concept of our relation with all other life. But you’ve never heard of him? Shame on you. The young Prince Peter Kropotkin was stationed at a post in Siberia—it was a lot like Wyoming—bored silly, I suppose. He had read Darwin’s Origin of Species, when it... Read more

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2012-07-01T15:10:36-07:00

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Three Pagan Poems

Last updated on: July 1, 2012 at 3:10 pm By Aidan Kelly

After that last series of essays, I will just lighten up a little. On a Very Mixed Party at Bob and Bill’s At first the dopers and the gays each thought The others were straight, then everyone decided Everyone else was cool, and the party warmed up. At one point ten girls were, two by two, The only ones dancing: flamboyant Maggie, Milly, Bev, the German girl who lives with Maggie, The blonde whom Rupert had been trying to... Read more

2012-06-30T13:39:08-07:00

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Aphrodiphobia, Part VI: Religion as Ecstasy

Last updated on: June 30, 2012 at 1:39 pm By Aidan Kelly

The woman whom I named Lilith has been my friend for more than forty years now. We were emailing each other a few years ago, discussing the year 1970. She has agreed to let me share part of her story. I have woven the following out of excerpts from those missives. Lilith: I was steeped in the Catholic mystic tradition. Our good Irish nuns were forever telling us about the lives of the saints. For me the whole notion of... Read more

New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn

2012-06-29T12:56:29-07:00

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Aphrodiphobia, Part V: Toward the Divine Sexuality

Last updated on: June 29, 2012 at 12:56 pm By Aidan Kelly

In one of the preceding essays, I said that a totally committed couple, in the moment of mutual orgasm, may “feel the edge of the ecstasy of a full enlightenment.” In a full enlightenment or awakening, the barrier between the ordinary self and the Deep Mind (I think that’s a more accurate name than “collective unconscious”) vanishes: one feels one’s immortality, one’s eternal safety, and the ecstasy, an order of magnitude greater than that of the ecstatic couple, that I... Read more

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2012-06-28T13:27:23-07:00

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Aphrodiphobia, Part IV: The Logical Consequences of the First Commandment

Last updated on: June 28, 2012 at 1:27 pm By Aidan Kelly

The “First Commandment” under discussion here is not that in the Decalogue, but the one in Genesis 1:28: God blessed them by saying, “Be fertile and increase in numbers. Fill the earth and subdue it. . . . “ In the King James translation, “blessed them and said,” the blessing appears to be different from what is said; that is simply wrong. When God says, “Be fruitful and multiply,” that is both the blessing and the commandment. Thus, the commandment... Read more

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