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2015-04-08T13:08:36-07:00

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Winning the War Against White Male Privilege

Last updated on: April 8, 2015 at 1:08 pm By Aidan Kelly

It is obvious that being white, male, strong, bright, and creative is unfair to all who lack those traits. So, in the interests of social justice, I will carry on the legacy of Dean Swift and Ayn Rand by offering a few modest proposals for rectifying such inequality. The most visible problem is that of skin color. If everyone were light brown, the average color for mankind in general, that would solve the problem. Paint or makeup would serve. Especially... Read more

2015-04-01T14:04:04-07:00

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The Second Letter of Diana

Last updated on: April 1, 2015 at 2:04 pm By Aidan Kelly

This is a discrete unit from my ongoing Books of the Sacred Marriage. Should I post it at all? The universal plague we face cannot be combatted by politeness. As I have said, Witchcraft is, and must inherently be, an In Your Face religion. I know, of course, there will be many who, out of ignorance, will insist on misunderstanding and misinterpreting this fictive epistle. I don’t care. The minority to whom it is addressed will understand it. 2. The... Read more

2015-03-25T13:52:41-07:00

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My Gnostic, Heretical Books Are Available on Amazon

Last updated on: March 25, 2015 at 1:52 pm By Aidan Kelly

Being far more focused on completing the five (at least) current books I am working on, I rarely think about the boring mundane tasks of marketing and promotion, but since I have not recently put up even an announcement about my books, it has occurred to me that it might be salutary to does so, mainly because this morning my Higher Self seems to have taken over and relieved me of worry about the petty, vindictive landlord we are dealing... Read more

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2015-03-21T12:31:47-07:00

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The Hymn of the Eternal Marriage

Last updated on: March 21, 2015 at 12:31 pm By Aidan Kelly

I enjoy finding fragments of lost treasures and piecing them together to see what they might have been like. This is a hypothetical reconstruction of a Gnostic myth. It find it aesthetically pleasing that I could assemble it entirely of passages from the Gnostic sources. I’m presenting it not as what I believe in any literal sense, but as their vision of the archetype of the Divine Lovers, an archetype that makes sense to Witches and a great many other... Read more

2015-02-06T15:14:58-08:00

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War Against Women: Empower the Victims

Last updated on: February 6, 2015 at 3:14 pm By Aidan Kelly

I am heartened by the Swedes: they have decriminalized the selling of sex; have made buying sex a major crime; and are enabling women to get out of the sex business (or sex slavery) and find a better life. Face this fact, hypocrites: to not provide a woman with a decent job at adequate pay is to sell her into slavery. Read more

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2015-01-25T21:52:28-08:00

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Trekking Toward Nineveh, Mile One

Last updated on: January 25, 2015 at 9:52 pm By Aidan Kelly

I have finally, step by step, been forced to realize what I must do. Since I am 74, I must do it now. I have been thinking and learning about our universal madness for 60 years. How much time have I left to describe what might begin to combat it? I am not overjoyed at having to face this task. What comes to mind is the delightful short story of Jonah, which I will explicate by a paraphrase. The Lord... Read more

New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn

2014-12-30T14:18:50-08:00

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Prologue to a Story of Jesus and Mary

Last updated on: December 30, 2014 at 2:18 pm By Aidan Kelly

Two beats of God’s heart ago, two thousand years as we feel time, the Awakened wrote myths, using the best science of their time, each hoping to Awaken at least another. I was Awakened sixty years ago. I can write a myth and hope to do as much, using the science we have now, knowing that after two more heartbeats another will write another myth, for the pursuit of knowledge cannot end in our infinity of infinite universes. I There... Read more

2014-11-16T11:48:45-08:00

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Reconnecting, Perhaps, with the Radical Left

Last updated on: November 16, 2014 at 11:48 am By Aidan Kelly

Somehow Melinda got sent an invite to the Tacoma Free Skool’s first organizing meeting. Since unschooling does not give our girls much social life, we went. Melinda also needed to report back to other homeschoolers on whether it looked like it might be a good resource. So, after looking at their first informational pamphlet, I said to a redhaired young woman, whose name turned out to be SAM, “I bet it would be dumb to ask who’s in charge here.”... Read more

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2014-11-04T16:43:50-08:00

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How I Pray

Last updated on: November 4, 2014 at 4:43 pm By Aidan Kelly

All sensible people pray, no matter what term they use to name what they do. I know that the Gods exist independently of humanity and that prayer works. (That’s know, not believe.) If you are certain that nothing divine exists and that prayer cannot work, then of course it can’t. But if you are at least willing to be openminded about the possibilities that the Gods might be real and that prayer might work, then it will. I began crafting... Read more

2014-09-03T18:35:30-07:00

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“I Fell in Love with a Witch”: The Vision of Gerald Gardner

Last updated on: September 3, 2014 at 6:35 pm By Aidan Kelly

Some people argue that Gardnerians cannot claim to have the right to do something merely because Gardner did it. Yes, the historical pattern is that religious founders always have rights and privileges that their followers cannot have. I see this clearly in the three cases I know best, those of Gardner, Joseph Smith, and the Rabbi Joshua (whose Greek name was Jesus). A religious founder cannot be bound by ordinary rules of behavior, else he could not do something so... Read more

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