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August 2017

August 05, 2017

Our Experiment in Religious Engineering

That’s what Geoff Baldwin called it, as our Neighborhood annual picnic evolved into A Pagan...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Can I Teach Again? Would Anyone Listen?

Recently a brilliant woman doctoral student picked me, apparently by intuition, out of the hundreds...

February 14, 2016

Sam Wagar’s The Uses of Ecstasy is a masterpiece

It is easily one of the ten most important books ever written about the Craft...

November 2015

November 13, 2015

Announcing: Aradia and the Books of the Sacred Marriage

It’s done. After 45 years of working on the materials that went into it, it’s...

April 2015

April 12, 2015

From the Diary of St. Allogenes

Before anything came into being, the Mother alone existed, before the worlds in the heavens...

April 01, 2015

The Second Letter of Diana

This is a discrete unit from my ongoing Books of the Sacred Marriage. Should I...

February 2015

February 03, 2015

War Against Women: Empower the Victims

I am heartened by the Swedes: they have decriminalized the selling of sex; have made...

September 2014

September 03, 2014

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

Some people argue that Gardnerians cannot claim to have the right to do something merely...

September 03, 2014

A Note on the Creating of Religion

I know Philip Heselton hoped to find (but did not assume that he would) evidence...

May 2014

May 11, 2014

What If Witches Are the Genuine Christians? — Goddess Murder II

I had completed much more writing linked to my Goddess Murder project, and it was...

May 04, 2014

Blindsided by a Rabbit, Again

Just finished Paulo Coelho’s Eleven Minutes. Every one of his books is like seeing through...

December 2013

December 15, 2013

Why Is Sex a Problem at All? The Poison of Puritanism

Why don’t human beings just have sex whenever they feel like it—which is usually—just for...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

Retrieving the Myth of Jesus and Sophia, Part II

Understanding what the actual theology of the classical Gnostics was about depends on understanding what...

November 24, 2013

Retrieving the Myth of Jesus and Sophia, Part I

In various previous blogs I have been pursuing the myth of Jesus and Sophia. I...

October 2013

October 25, 2013

Goddess Murder, 32: Aradia’s First Revelation; Avalon 2

XXXIV. The First Revelation Discourse When Aradia, my mother, began to be a woman, her...

October 23, 2013

Goddess Murder, 31: First Night in Avalon

XXXIII. Avalon I As all men are alike (tho’ infinitely various), so all Religions, and...

September 2013

September 18, 2013

Autobiography by Email: More from Demian Allan Moonbloode

I have been a wytch since I was 14 years old. I was searching for...

August 2013

August 04, 2013

On Not Buying into Ancient Propaganda

In this passage from Epiphanius, we see that a young woman explained her sincere beliefs...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

On the Necessity of Awakening

I have settled on the term Awakening as the best label so far for this...

March 08, 2013

The Man Who Falls in Love with Goddesses

He never wants to fall in love; it's just / That every once in a...

March 06, 2013

A Request and Previews

A request for positive reviews of this blog, and some previews of upcoming posts.

January 2013

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 03, 2013

The Letter to Theophilus, Part III

As followers of Kharpocrates, we celebrate our bodily pleasures, unlike the heretics, and teach our...

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 30, 2012

Preview of “The Letter to Theophilus”

The "Gnostics" were radically dualistic and radically ascetic, but they were not the only variety...

December 26, 2012

Marvin Meyer, 1948-2012

Going looking for old friends on the Net and discovering that they have passed on...

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 02, 2012

Of Pagan Spirituality and Addiction

If you have the misfortune to be both Pagan and an addict, you may face...

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