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February 2013

February 04, 2013

Of Infinity, Divinity, and the Big Bang

In the beginning there is no beginning. / There is only the Goddess and her...

February 02, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: California and Councils, Part III: The Council of Themis

As described in previous blogs, the attempt to create an umbrella, church-like organization for...

February 01, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: The Heartland in the Early 1970s

During the decade from the late 1960s to the late 1970s, at least half the...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: California and Councils, 1967-1973, Part II

More modern Craft history: Fred and Martha Adler, the Psychedelic Venus Church, the Church of...

January 26, 2013

Imagine Jesus Holding Hands with the Goddess

One cannot talk about both Christianity and the Craft in the same breath IF if...

January 21, 2013

Post-Doctoral Witchcraft (or something like that)

I am thinking about how to teach what I actually know, which is far more...

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 05, 2013

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

The New York Coven of Welsh Traditional Witches was founded about 1970 by Edmund Buczynski...

January 04, 2013

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

The New England Coven of Traditionalist Witches was founded in North Haven, CT, in the...

December 2012

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 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 16, 2012

Goddess Murder

My novel Goddess Murder is essentially a love story, about the romance between a college...

December 02, 2012

Of Pagan Spirituality and Addiction

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

November 2012

November 23, 2012

The Pagan Way

In a strict chronology, I should next be discussing events in California and New England...

November 22, 2012

Raymond Buckland and Seax-Wica

In my last blog about the Gardnerians, I indicated that, because of changes in his...

October 2012

October 11, 2012

Before the Gardnerians: Introducing the Magus

[This begins the first chapter of my forthcoming A Tapestry of Witches: A History of...

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,...

July 2012

July 28, 2012

Looking for the Craft IV

A Pagan Almanac for July 27 and 28, 2012 Lunar Cycle: Ninth and tenth days...

July 22, 2012

Looking for the Craft, Part II

A Pagan Almanac: July 21, 2012 Lunar Cycle: Third day of the waxing Moon Rome:...

July 17, 2012

The Three-Dimensional Structure of the Pagan Movement

In writing about the history of the Craft, I have been often perplexed about how...

July 16, 2012

What Is a Witch?

I am not silly enough to suppose that everyone, or even a majority among Witches,...

June 2012

June 30, 2012

Aphrodiphobia, Part VI: Religion as Ecstasy

The woman whom I named Lilith has been my friend for more than forty years...

June 29, 2012

Aphrodiphobia, Part V: Toward the Divine Sexuality

In one of the preceding essays, I said that a totally committed couple, in the...

June 16, 2012

Why Wicca Is a Major World Religion

Gerald Brosseau Gardner, that strange retired Englishman, created Wicca because he could not find an...

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